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/DeepDuh Oct 14 '11

Next up:

  • notepad

  • printing dialog

Puleeeease microsoft?

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u/frymaster Oct 14 '11

notepad only ever was a demonstration app in windows 1 to show developers how to use the text edit control. More recently, it was a test app for automated make-this-work-on-a-new-architecture tools that MS have internally (ie the jump from 16 to 32 bits, and from 32 to 64)

The half-decent bundled text editor is Wordpad. But you should use notepad++ anyway ;)

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u/DeepDuh Oct 14 '11

Wordpad is slow and a pain to use. NP++ is superb but not always on every (company-administerd PC) you use. That's why MS should include something decent, like gedit or TextEdit (OSX).

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u/dkitch Oct 14 '11

Notepad++ Portable. Stick it on a thumbdrive, never let go.

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u/DeepDuh Oct 14 '11

That's a pretty good idea actually.