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Windows “sucks,” said a former Microsoft engineer — and he didn’t mean that as a meme; he meant it as a product diagnosis with a concrete repair plan for how Microsoft could restore trust, predictability, and control to the desktop every power user still depends on. Background / Overview For...

Dave Plummer opens his short, blunt video with four words—“Windows sucks”—and then does something increasingly rare in tech commentary: he doesn’t just complain, he draws a tight, engineer-first blueprint for repair. What follows is not a nostalgic plea to return to 1990s UI chrome; it’s a...

Dave Plummer — the engineer who built Windows’ Task Manager — has published a blunt diagnostic of why people hate Windows 11 and a compact, practical prescription for how Microsoft can repair trust and usability in the OS. His central thesis is simple and sharp: Windows 11 increasingly behaves...

xAI’s Grok 4 — the company’s most advanced reasoning model — is now open to free-tier users worldwide, albeit with limits, feature restrictions, and a clear commercial tug-of-war shaping how, when, and for whom the model will actually be useful. The move, announced on xAI’s channels and widely...