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I may be misremembering, but Dave has spoken on his Dave's Garage Youtube channel about running a separate software business selling small utilities and later s

I may be misremembering, but Dave has spoken on his Dave's Garage Youtube channel about running a separate software business selling small utilities and later selling some of them to Microsoft. This might have been one of them. A quick search confirms that he also claims that here: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plummer_author_of_windows_task_manager/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...

lgunsch 3y ago
He talks about it in one of his videos. The zip directory was a product of a side hustle of his, which Microsoft then bought out. In the video he comments how much easier it was to integrate when he had access to more internal apis.
xnx 3y ago
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587379 21 days ago | 121 comments