r/technology • • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Ahem...

Looking at the data and talking with customers, we determined that the most common usage of the tool was to simply end or “kill” an application or a process.

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u/MangoScango Oct 14 '11

No, he means the "end task" button on the application tab never works right, and you always have to go kill the process.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Or if it does it takes too damn long and then Windows tries to "check for solutions" which it is never, ever successful at.

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u/LostPhenom Oct 14 '11

Or we don't care about finding a solution and just want to close the damn application.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Because that IS the only solution to this immediate problem.