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       You can't close apps
       By: Lion_Heart Date: January 30, 2013, 12:04 am
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       A majority of testers complained about the lack of a mechanism
       to close apps: Once you start an app, it remains open until
       Windows 8 decides to suspend it in order to save CPU cycles --
       though the app is still present. While that may not be an issue
       for the regular user, the more professional users have major
       issues with this: The most viewed thread on the official Windows
       8 developer forums is titled "Exit Developer Preview Apps (aka
       Closing Metro Apps)", with nearly all users crying foul over
       this obvious omission. After a heated debate, Microsoft's own
       Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice President for Windows Development,
       weighed in:
       The idea is Metro Style apps are not closed. The system takes
       care of keeping the apps from consuming background resources
       automatically. You can examine the app lifetime information in
       the developer documentation if you'd like.
       The problem with this approach is that even suspended
       applications consume resources (i.e., memory). Plus, when
       cycling through apps, I sometimes find that apps have
       automatically suspended and are only available when I launch
       them again through the Start screen. That's annoying. I don't
       want to swipe through applications without knowing whether it is
       still active or not running. I want to be in charge of what's
       running or not.
       Solution: In the Windows 8 Pre-Beta (the one WITH the developer
       tools, mind you) you can close apps using ALT+F4, though that's
       not working with the regular builds. The only current
       alternative is to launch task manager, jump to the Processes tab
       and close currently running apps.
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       But there is some good news on the horizon: Chief of Windows,
       Steven Sinofsky, briefly mentioned in one of his
       whitepaper-style blog posts
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       />that there will be a way to close apps more easily: "Will ther
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       be a way to close Metro style apps without going to Task
       Manager? (Yes there will be, but we also want to talk about why
       you probably won't need to use it."
       I guess we'll have to wait for the beta for a perfect solution.
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