Dave W. Plummer, a retired Microsoft Windows engineer and the father of Task Manager, announced on X on August 24 that the native TMOG task manager had been released for Windows 11 and Linux. The latest version is 0.1.1.
Plummer said in the post that when he developed Windows Task Manager in 1995, he used a computer with a P90 processor to implement updating, scrolling, and rendering while keeping CPU usage below 2%. Task Manager first appeared publicly in Windows NT 4.0 in 1996, with a file size of just 80 KB.
The TMOG project took a different development approach: Plummer first wrote a 107-page specification and then handed it to Claude Code, a code-generation and development tool, for processing.
Plummer said the project originally arose from a debate over whether a new version of Microsoft Word could be developed through “vibe coding” today. He had initially planned to try building Word, but then chose Task Manager, which he knew better.
During the process, he took a MacBook Air powered by an M5 chip to the hospital and wrote code while waiting for his son to undergo emergency appendectomy surgery. After his son was readmitted due to internal bleeding, Plummer gained even more time for mobile development.
The first TMOG builds took about 4.5 hours to complete on this portable device. Plummer said the application worked on its first run, after which he continued refining the details. Relevant screenshots are shown below:
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