Microsoft has an explanation on the innovations that it has introduced in the Task Manager of Windows 8. According to the software giant close the new task manager, better to daily use.
From user research from Microsoft shows that 85 percent of the users in the Task Manager of Windows 7 only the tabs ‘applications’ and ‘processes’ are used. What is striking is that certainly half the process tab to see which Microsoft concluded that the applications-tab functionality missing. This look users, especially, to the cpu usage of a process, while the exit of a process is by far the most common user action is.
With this information in mind, Microsoft began with the construction of a new Task Manager. According to the Windows development team was the biggest challenge for the user not to overwhelm new informatielagen and functions in task manager, while existing functionality just available had to continue. In the new Task Manager of Windows 8 is also a button that more or less information. In addition, it shows the default view, no tabs and no menu bar. This simplification would be particularly useful for a crashed application to quit. Microsoft also proposes that Windows 8 faster than Windows 7 and, moreover, no dialog more shows with a bevestigingsverzoek.
If the user clicks on the button ‘more details’ button, he will get an extended version of the Task Manager to see. It is in the processes-tab, use of heat maps, which is the most active processes of a color. Also in the processes-tab details are displayed on the network-, memory -, and disk space usage, and a distinction is drawn between applications, and windows and background processes. According to Microsoft, you can also less advanced users thanks to this way of presenting faster a problem and, for example, a memory-hungry application will be closed.
What’s new in the task manager of Windows 8 is the ability to search the web for the name of a particular process. According to Microsoft, this will less often be necessary, as Task Manager for a process an extensive name lists.
Microsoft concludes his remarks on the new Task Manager with the statement that the task manager is a better fit for the daily use of both novice and advanced users. The new Task Manager is, of course, already available in the preview version of Windows 8.