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I have heard a few folks say through the Contact feature that they can't see how to provide comments to my posts. I have re-enabled anonymous comments, a feature that must have been turned off in one of the blog migrations done behind the scenes. Please...

Optimizations There are primarily two major optimization features in the 2005 release, whole program optimization and profile guided optimization, and also new specialized support for newer processors (/G7 for Pentium 4 processors) along with significantly...

I just noticed that my peer, compiler program manager Brandon Bray, has started posting again :) After a long two year drought, Brandon is back, with two very cool posts - one about mixed types and the other about the compiler switch changes in 2005....

Today a customer asked me a fun question: What does Birds of a Feather mean? I had fun answering this question, and I thought it would be fun to post it here. There is an old expression "birds of a feather flock together," which is actually a part...

I posted a query awhile back to students and hobbyists, and I'm hoping to get a few more of you to respond by offering prizes! I've got random C++ SWAG and some free copies of Visual C++ 2003 Standard to send out to random prize drawing winners...here...

In talking with some customers here at PDC, I heard a lot of them say that Windows 98 continues to be their lowest common denominator in developing for their customers. This is interesting to hear about, because we are of course planning for future releases...

Before I get started I want to point out a couple of items for tomorrow: 1) Herb Sutter's 10:30a.m. talk about C++ futures 2) The Meet the Visual C++ team event in the Tools and Languages track lounge at 1:30p.m. I've started to see a few C++ specific...

It was another great day here at PDC, truly. Tonight was a fun event at Universal Studios which capped the day off nicely. I have to start by saying, though, I'm feeling a bit punchy as I'm very tired and have been fighting my network connection here...

Well today was the first day of PDC , and it is off to a great start. I have to say my favorite part is meeting the broad spectrum of customers, partners and even other Microsoft employees that I don't normally interact with. This year my primary job...

I can't tell you how busy we have been over the past few months, back in building 41, getting Visual C++ 2005 ready to go. It is always at this late stage in the game where complex issues and interesting bugs find their way onto our collective plate and...