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

David William Plummer began his career at Microsoft as an intern on the MS-DOS team and was later offered a full-time ...

Microsoft’s new Windows XP operating system will be ready for production as early as Friday, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said, sounding optimistic about an on-schedule launch despite the company’s ...

Microsoft‘s slow march to service pack 3 for Windows XP continued Tuesday as the company released a refresh of its latest beta code. The new software follows February’s release of Windows XP SP3 RC2.

Microsoft has been working on the successor to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn since XP was first released. But work on Longhorn was slowed about a year ago in response to a flurry of damaging viruses ...