Two big product announcements in as many days!   The IE9 beta is available for evaluation and the Windows Phone 7 Developer Kit is ready as well.  

Many of us are still awaiting the many-core machines we keep reading about. But, writing code for these systems really should begin today. In practice, there’s not a tremendous difference in writing code that targets an 8-core machine versus one...

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team has announced completion of their latest publication subtitled Design Patterns for Decomposition and Coordination of Multicore Architectures .   Draft chapters of this book have been available via...