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Dave Plummer — the retired Microsoft engineer best known for authoring the original Windows Task Manager — has published a blunt, short video and accompanying commentary arguing that modern Windows “sucks” for a sizeable and influential subset of users, and he’s offering a compact, practical...

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 — 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...