Posted on Tuesday, May 26 2020 @ 14:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
In a Reddit post, the creator of the Task Manager tool in Windows shares a bunch of lore and tips & tricks.
Some Task Manager lore: I'm the Microsoft (Redmond, '93) developer that wrote TaskMgr at home in my den in about 1994 and then the NT silverback devs let me check it into the main tree even though I was a greenhorn at the time. So that meant I got to bring it into work and polish it up and make it an official part of Windows, where it remains to this day. So I got to define my own day job, actually, which was nice! I don't know if it's still like that, but great culture and people.
This is all based on XP, as I left long ago, but it's still the same core app underneath. In no particular order..
You can read it
over here. Definitely some interesting stuff in there.
