Windows 8 Metro Apps Can Run Even If Suspended Tanks to Background Tasks
Some aspects for Metro apps in Windows 8 can remain active and continue running even if the user has pushed them to the background, suspending them.
The new Metro platform of the next major iteration of the Windows client suspends any opened Metro apps that customers are not using, providing a fully immersive experience only for the application that’s in focus.
“The foreground app is assumed to be the most important to the user, so this app receives all the resources of the system,” Microsoft reveals.
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