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"Microsoft says the restriction is designed to ensure that users get the best possible performance from limited netbook hardware." Because being able to run mo
by Jebdm 18y ago
"Microsoft says the restriction is designed to ensure that users get the best possible performance from limited netbook hardware."
Because being able to run more than three applications at once makes your hardware less efficient?
(EDIT: To be fair, I suppose that having a low fixed number of applications could let you pull off some useful optimizations. However, most of those optimizations seem like they would significantly change the OS architecture, so I doubt that Microsoft performed them. Maybe they did, though.)
- thwarted 18y agoNetbooks are much more powerful than the hardware used in the G1 Android phone, and Android gives a pretty good impression of running every possible app at once (if apps are written to save state) even though the constraints of the device and UI limit it to about 6 apps active at once. If an app is removed from memory because it hasn't been in the foreground in a while, they usually pick up right where they left off when they are restarted, and it doesn't even look like they had to be restarted. Microsoft won't do this with Windows though, because it would break backward compatibility and change the user experience consistency that is the bread and butter of their Windows sales.