Microsoft has recently released a beta for Windows 7, and a look at the official web site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx ) will show you a pretty impressive list of new features and usability enhancements. I encourage you to...

Charles Torre just posted a great Channel9 session with Windows kernel architect Dave Probert on functionality new to Windows7: User Mode Scheduled (UMS) Threads. Much like fibers, UMS threads enable a user mode scheduler (like the Concurrency Runtime...