‘I think my code is 90% still there’ retired Microsoft engineer tells us as build released to Windows Insiders
Microsoft allowed the original author of Task Manager to unveil the software giant’s latest take on everyone’s favorite last resort, replete with optional dark mode and the navigation cues of Windows 11. Earlier today, retired Microsoft operating systems engineer Dave Plummer, who coded Task Manager back in the glory days of Windows NT 4, showed off in the video below the 2022 redesign of Task Manager. As we reported last month, Redmond has been working on overhauling the OS component. Youtube Video Task Manager has changed over the years, certainly from the green phosphor-inspired lines of Plummer’s original. «Upgrades to Task Manager were one of the few good things to come out of Windows 8,» he remarked. Harsh, but fair. Fans of dark-mode user interfaces could do worse than take a look at Windows 11 build 22557 in the Windows Insider Dev Channel for the Task Manager makeover, unless they are one of the dozen or so users of Windows on Arm – this Insider build does not, alas, work on that kit.
