Dave Plummer, a veteran Microsoft developer who contributed to the creation of Task Manager, ZIP folders, and Windows Product ...

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Windows XP users may now download a fourth service pack for the 13-year-old operating system, but it isn’t coming from Microsoft. Instead, this Windows XP “SP4” comes from a single developer, who ...

Microsoft is beefing up the peer-to-peer capabilities for its Windows XP operating system. The software giant recently released a development kit for building peer-to-peer applications and an update ...

Originally targeted for release in June, and then delayed until this month, the release of Windows XP SP2 has been pushed back once again. Citing "quality concerns," Microsoft has not announced a ...

A Windows developer has successfully compiled both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from source code leaked online last week. Last week, a 43GB collection of Microsoft source code was released as a ...

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David Plummer, the former Microsoft developer who wrote Windows Task Manager in the 1990s, has revealed the application's inner workings and hidden tricks. Windows Task Manager (TaskMgr) first shipped ...