Microsoft Talks More About Windows 8 Task Manager

Rob Williams

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A couple of weeks ago, we linked to an in-depth look of the Task Manager in Windows 8 at the official development blog, and this week, the team followed-up to talk a bit more about monitoring your desktop or server with it. While the Task Manager has seemed sufficient in recent Windows iterations, the update coming exposes just how much better things can be.

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Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!
 

marfig

No ROM battery
I've played with Linux lots of times, but now that I'veI installed Ubuntu 11.10 I'm using it all the time, and it seems to me that Windows 8 Task Manager is nothing more than a copy of Ubuntu's System Monitor, or OS X's Activity Monitor,

MSDOS (80s through 90s) System Monitor:
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Windows NT 3.1 (1993) System Monitor:
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Windows 95 (1995) System Monitor:
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Windows XP (2001) System Monitor:
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Windows 7 (2009) System Monitor:
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Quack!
 
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Rob Williams

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Wow, quite the collection of system monitors there!

MacMan: Ubuntu's System Monitor is in fact GNOME's System Monitor and has remained in its current incarnation for many years. The point of this post isn't that Windows gained a system monitor, because it didn't. It just drastically improved it.
 
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