NSA Backdoor in Windows? This and more from the guy who created Windows Task Manager!

So many stories and so much advice from Dave Plummer – the original creator of task manager and other interesting software like unzip on Microsoft Windows. Did the NSA have a backdoor in Microsoft Windows? Should you learn Rust or GoLang? Learn from someone who has years of development experience!

// Dave’s Social //
Youtube: @davesgarage
Twitter: davepl1968
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidplummer

// Great videos on Dave’s channel //
Windows Task Manager: Inside Task Manager with the Original…
Windows Clock: Inside Task Manager with the Original…
Windows Start Menu: Behind the Windows Start Menu – Insid…
Windows Zip Folders; 06.Secret History of Windows ZIPFolders
Windows Activation: Blame Me: The INSIDER Secrets of Wind…
10x your code with ChatGPT: 10X Your Code with ChatGPT: How to U…

// Great Playlist on Dave’s channel //
Windows War Stories

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// Menu //
00:00 – Coming up
01:01 – Dave Plummer’s history
02:26 – Dave’s Garage
03:33 – How Dave started at MicroSoft
06:15 – Task Manager
10:36 – Other Operating Systems
11:06 – What OS is Dave coding on?
11:30 – How Dave got into coding
13:14 – Advice to younger people
14:18 – Sell your work, not yourself
15:38 – Still coding long after Microsoft
16:22 – Visual Zip
18:40 – Show your work
19:31 – Was it easier in the old days?
21:07 – Would you use Rust today?
21:43 – Should I learn C?
22:10 – What language is Windows written in?
23:14 – ZIG and other programming languages
25:05 – Start with Python
26:32 – Write your code right
27:00 – Windows 95 vs NT
30:00 – 20-year-old code still in Windows
30:47 – Task manager is still the same
31:11 – Politics between Win 95 and NT team
31:48 – Product Activation
33:42 – Loved for task manager; hated for Windows activation

35:05- Open Source
36:00 – Who is looking at your code?
37:15 – NSA and backdoor access to Windows
38:07 – Sneaking code into Windows
38:53 – Windows Easter eggs
39:54 – Doom on Excel
40:17 – Secret messages in MS DOS
40:46 – Pinball
43:49 – The Start menu
45:08 – Calculator and Clock

47:58 – Blue screen of death
48:59 – Chat GPT
51:01 – Chat GPT and bad code
51:30 – Plans with your channel
52:27 – Meeting Dave in person
52:45 – Outro