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by bradwestness 4843 days ago
The problem is that this utility defeats the battery life savings which is the main point of the metro "one app at a time" model by breaking the suspend/restore functionality by enabling you to run many concurrent applications.

It's very likely that this utility also breaks some of the sandboxing of metro applications, introducing security vulnerabilities that don't exist in vanilla Windows 8.

That said, this utility looks cool, and I hope Microsoft encourages, rather than discourages, stuff like this going forward. Let the power users customize the environment however they like.

But there are good reasons that they don't enable this out of the box.
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prof_hobart 4842 days ago
The vast majority of the time (both at home and at work), I'm not running on battery power - and when I am, it's rarely for more than an hour or two. And I doubt that I'm too unusual in that.

Given that, it seems odd to design the entire UI experience around power management.

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TomTomJ 4842 days ago
This appears to radically alter the security of the W8 app sandbox...apparently intercepting the process and changing the security permissions....dangerous

Anyone feel like running some tests and verifying this?

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madoublet 4843 days ago
Honestly, that would explain a lot. I think whenever you let technical limitations drive the experience you end up with a bad experience.
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joe_the_user 4843 days ago
Uh yeah ... Windows 8 has taken us all the way back to the Windows 3.1 days where everyone had a different cool app/utility just to make their machine barely usable. The last thing MS would/should/could want is dependence on third party apps for basic functionality.

The twenty, thirty, however many years have shown just how important and how defining the default settings are. "It's easy to change!" doesn't solve the problems with X default settings for just about anything.

It's like that Saturday Live sketch - "Warning: this is a bag of glass" still makes the, uh, "Bag Of Glass" toy a little problematic. And it's got me thinking about the 80's (or was that the 70's, those ole' memories...)

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