Microsoft has simplified the basic Task Manager so much that you won’t even get a double prompt asking whether you’re certain you want to kill a process. This approach is similar to Apple’s interface for killing applications in OS X.
If a program is having a problem, a ‘Not responding’ note will appear next to the application name. No tabs, no menu bar, no statistics–just applications. Source: MacworldSo instead of seeing a long list of information you don’t need, all you’ll see when you open the Windows 8 Task Manager for the first time is a simple list of applications. This discovery isn’t especially surprising, since most people use the Task Manager to close out an application or process that isn’t responding.įorce Quit dialog box in OS X 10.5 Leopard.
After studying user habits in Windows 7, Microsoft found that 85 percent of all Task Manager usage centers on the Applications and Processes tabs.
