Microsoft Research recently announced the availability, under Academic Licensing , of Dryad , an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer...

Check out this interview on Channel 9 that covers the new Collaboration Technologies in Vista. Really cool stuff. C

I recently interviewed Bill Gates on Channel 9 . He talks openly about IE, the future of software, and even where he surfs on the web! It was an honor to meet him. He's a really down to earth person and very nice. You'd never guess he's worth 48 billion...

I recently caught up with seasoned Niner (Channel 9 member), Larry Osterman, an SDE and 20 year Microsoft veteran, and Elliot H Omiya, a Software Architect and audio guru, to dig into the innerworkings of Vista's updated Audio Stack and new user mode...

We just released a great video interview on Channel 9 that should be of tremendous interest to those of you who write managed threaded code: The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is a lightweight port-based concurrency library for C# 2.0 developed...

Recently, I had a discussion with four of the reseachers behind MSR's Singularity , a research kernel written predominately in safe managed code (where possible...) that represents a highly innovative approach to Reliability and Security in operating...

We just released a new "feature" on Channel 9: Shows . The Show concept is a way to categorize tightly-bound video interviews, podcasts, etc by creating a "content encapsulation structure" that contains Episodes. You know, the same thing they do on commercial...

We generally make the assumption that carbon and water are fundamental ingredients required for the advent of living systems in the universe. Given that all the data we have to work with is based on the behavior of biologic systems operating on the surface...

Tired of waiting around for your favorite Microsoft Bloggers to post topics to their blogs that may or may not interest you? Want to initiate conversation with your peers and Microsoft Developers (and Testers and Program Managers and Architects and even...

There really is no good reason to not allow users running under restricted privlege to view the system clock and calendar in Windows XP. In general, I think we need to get away from the IT mindset when it comes to our consumer operating systems like XP...

Let's create a new Window in Win32: HWND hwndMain = CreateWindowEx( 0, "MainWClass", "Main Window", WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, (HWND)NULL, (HMENU)NULL, hInstance, NULL...

As mentioned in one of Brumme's past entries , more visibility (and kudos) is needed for the Microsoft Research division. This large, university-like component of Microsoft consistently produces so many amazing technologies that eventually end up in our...

Interesting article on a recent discovery of Carbon and Oxygen in the atmosphere of the dying gas giant Osiris.

Fascinating, captain.

How much you do you really know about the CLR exception model? Do you know how Windows SEH works? Really? Please read this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/10/01/51524.aspx Now, what do you think of our current managed exception...

As a Microsoft developer, most of my time is spent thinking about and writing code. However, because of my unique position as a developer on a team of Windows technical evangelists I often get to think about bigger picture things and play with prototype...