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In reply to the discussion: Windows 8 [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)even after the app has been closed because it spawns an underlying process that sits there and sucks up resources until you go in and kill the process. This is nothing new with Microsoft products, but it's particularly insidious with certain of them. Windows 8 is one of them. The reason is that it is designed for a mobile platform and that is typically underpowered hardware that takes a while to launch the first time you launch a subset of applications. It remains resident so that the next time you access an app on the phone, it's quick.
This is a problem with PC's, though, because you don't use them like a phone. You need horsepower for a lot of apps, and don't want a bunch of things sitting there sucking up resources for no reason, particularly because you use a broader range of things on a PC and it can a) cause conflicts and crashes and b) you need more resources for certain tasks.