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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer
2025: The guy that wrote Windows' Task Manager at Microsoft is creating burner accounts to get the OS installed.
I've been doing that whenever I had to do a Windows installation in recent years. But I don't plan to ever install Windows again.
Would you really believe any of that?
Wait, believe what?
I promise real humans made Windows. Like, a lot of them. It's not that weird.
But beyond that, trust me, that is this guy's entire personality. I believe he uses his Microsoft access card with his picture as an image in thumbnails often. Which I'm now realizing I've judged him for when it's probably in response to getting this type of reaction a bunch.
Well that's the thing though, he claims he did a bunch of stuff at Microsoft and all of it is conveniently very fun to say in a YouTube video for views but literally none of it is verifiable. It would be fine if he was trustworthy but he's also going around claiming "as an intern, I shipped a lot of major features" which that's just straight up false, interns don't do that.
At the very least, I would take all claims made on his wikipedia article that are not immediately followed by a citation with a massive grain of salt.
The fact he then went on to sell registry cleaners and support contracts is telling.
This is astoundingly weird.
I mean, he didn't show up from the ether to make this tweet, he's a semi-well known youtuber, his anecdotes about his time at Microsoft have been reported in specialist press often and to my knowledge nobody at Microsoft ever went "hey, we don't know who that is". No matter how many grains of salt you take on uncited Wikipedia content, there are enough citations there to verify his identity, from local newspaper coverage of his career to links to public talks mentioning his background. He has frequently namedropped coworkers at the time, who to my knowledge haven't contested his accounts. The Wikipedia page in question isn't even a hagiography, bringing up his failed companies and legal issues surrounding them.
I don't mind skepticism, but this is paranoia. Is it possible the guy is a bullshitter whose wide reaching lies have somehow not triggered a rebuke from the people he has specifically named? I guess weirder things have happened. Would you be questioning his background if he was saying something you don't perceive as disagreeing with you? Absolutely not.
I have no more reason to question this guy having worked at Microsoft (and on the Task Manager specifically, which is a really weirdly mid-tier thing to brag about for twenty years if you didn't do it) than to think Niccolo Venerandi didn't contribute to KDE Plasma because he has a Youtube channel. It's just a strange way to react to this.
It's easy to lie about this stuff and not get called out by the company or employees. See: PirateSoftware
Yes, famously never-called-out PirateSoftware
You are not immune to propaganda
Brother, he got away with it for years without being called out. Are you stupid? Did you really think I meant that he was never called out for it? Sometimes the shit you nerds say is downright incredible.
This is ableism.
Shut up, dumbass.
More ableism........ lol
Stop going through my post history and harassing me.
? I haven't been, I am simply responding to your comments to me, kiddo. That's how the app works. I also never harassed you, I commented on 2 of your comments days ago "this is ableism" because you lied about caring about ableism while trolling. That isn't harassment lol. Because you're a liar and a troll and not good faith.
Wait,.did PirateSoftware not actually work at Blizzard?
His dad worked at Blizzard, Pirate basically got a free job through him, then passed all his work onto coworkers.
Why wouldn't you?
What do you believe the existence of a dormant Microsoft account does on your device?
Instead I look at the sky and I feel nothing
Tonight the sky is empty
But that is nothing new
You know I hate to be alone.
I want to be wrong.
You're gonna need to be more specific
He has made this video with Dave Cutler. I strongly doubt there would be any reason for Cutler to give an MS PirateSoftware any free endorsement.
https://youtu.be/xi1Lq79mLeE