Background Tasks The majority of the new additions to the background APIs can be found in the background tasks. This includes new concepts, triggers and system event types. If you're new to background ...

The old background tasks was a little easier to get a bird’s eye view of what is and is not running, but with Battery Saver in 8.1 you get much more fined grained control, ...

What's New in Windows 8.1 Background Tasks. 09/06/2013; The release of the Windows 8.1 Preview at the Build 2013 conference brought hundreds of new additions and enhancements to the Windows Runtime.