windows task manager

Windows Task Manager is gaining per-process visibility into NPU and GPU neural-engine activity, giving administrators and developers a built-in way to see whether local AI work is using dedicated accelerators or consuming ordinary CPU and GPU resources instead. Microsoft detailed the change in...

Dave W. Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer widely credited with creating the original Windows Task Manager, says a new utility called Task Manager OG, or TMOG, is headed to Windows as a native Win32 application. Windows Central reports that the Windows build will follow “shortly” after the...

Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer credited with creating the original Windows Task Manager, is building a Windows-like process monitor for macOS in Swift. As first reported by Club386, the early prototype already resembles the Windows 11 utility and includes per-core CPU activity...

Windows Task Manager’s CPU meter has always been less of a live feed than a short-term memory test, and that distinction matters more on modern PCs than it did on the beige-box machines of the 1990s. Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, who wrote the original Task Manager, says the number is...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer’s recollection of the original Task Manager is a reminder that great system tools are often born from constraint, not abundance. In a recent discussion highlighted by Tom’s Hardware, Plummer said the utility was only about 80KB in its original form so it...