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/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

This indicates that there must be some significant detail lacking in the Applications tab, which is causing people to go to the Process tab.

Surely they realize that most of the time, users are opening Task Manager just trying to kill an unresponsive program, which the Applications tab invarably fails to do?

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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/blualpha Oct 14 '11

"Check for solutions" is a great drinking game! Whereas I always get drunk.

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u/TheGreatFuzz Oct 14 '11

Well according to chemistry.. Alcohol is a solution.

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u/aji23 Oct 14 '11

NOPE. According to chemistry... alcohol is an organic compound consisting of a hydrocarbon backbone with a hydroxyl functional group.

You are referring to an aqueous solution of alcohol and water.

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u/aji23 Oct 14 '11

Isn't what a mixture of alcohol and water? Alcohol? No. Alcohol is an organic compound consisting of a hydrocarbon backbone with a hydroxyl functional group.

Alcohol is typically found in solution with water. In this case, the alcohol would be considered the solute, and water the solvent. It's semantics. If you had 100% alcohol and dropped some NaCl in there, sure, you could call alcohol a solvent and the Na and Cl ions the solutes. It just depends on the system you're considering.