Will Microsoft improve multitasking on Windows 10 for Phone?

[stenson625]

WP OS, an endless experiment that is poised to remain unproductive, is ready to move forward when it starts listening to consumers needs, not wants!

 

[Asskickulater]

i'd love an option like this:
-default state of an apen app in the background is suspended/paused state
-if you listen to a youtube clip in IE, it would be awesome if you had the "pause/play" button if you hold the back button below the screen of the app

what do you think? that way the battery life would be the same for people that are ok with the way things are now, but if you needed an app to be running you'd just go to the open apps menu (how do you call that view when you hold the back button anyway?) and make it run in the background

if you were watching a youtube cliip, its audio would continue to play after you left the app, so.. your way is just a more ghetto, less intinutive way of accomplishing the same goal

 

[zkyevolved]

Well, I certainly hope they do improve upon the multitasking. I see "Resuming" far too often on my 1520 on Denim. How can this be improved on? Well, not trashing everything in memory! I have seen in Android a lot of applications active. I don't need that on WP. But I do notice that WP does tend to trash the open applications rather quickly. I would love to be able to leave some applications always running maybe? Or not have them be taken out of RAM so often. The device can study which applications you use the most, and then keep those active more or less depending on usage. I open 6tag every 3-4 days. I open Line and Whatsapp every hour or less.

 

[Grimlock]

I do look forward to some level of true multitasking, multiwindow for a phone with the display real estate that the 1520 offers would be great...

I really hope this is introduced in WP10. They can start out small with some of the core OS apps and gradually expand. I saw the Samsung implementation on the Note and it wasn't bad, but I think MS can improve on it.

Maybe in the card view instead of swiping down to close an app, you swipe up the two apps you want to have open.

 

[rajthampi]

Stupid answers all over here just to sweet talk you to silence when the truth is all written in black and white! Heck! On a normal, do I need a Billion headed brained developer to achieve background download on my phone? No! Then why the flattery fuse of defensive backing of MS OS's gullibility?
I know one thing: when you keep giving people excuses for a long time on why they should remain stupid, their stupidity will produce a new way of reasoning out the absurd. Soon you will become old school, stupid one for that matter.

Minimum few are ready to speak the truth. Yes, the OS and the OS design "thoughts" altogether are old school, saving the battery by NOT letting apps running in the background or NOT letting open sockets in the background IS not the "right" way for a modern OS.
Android does it better and iOS also, sheesh, hold you reins before asking me to eff off. I am using 3 computers running Windows 10, own 2 Lumia phones running Windows10 phone insider previews, so NOT a hater(?), yet I would love to see the OS maturing to better levels.