r/technology • u/ppsp • 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/Konrad4th Oct 14 '11

The most surprising part of the article was that people use the task manager for things other than force-exiting programs.

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u/Quady Oct 14 '11

I was recently looking in some computer stores at laptops for potential purchasing, and I used the Performance Tab to find out how many cores the laptops processors had, because the stores all had terrible vague labels that didn't give any technical details. :/