The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead. Concurrency is one of the big reasons why there's...

I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is so simple to grasp that it's more likely that...

I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform). They're finally including a useful open source...

Silverlight Overview http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/ <---- check this out! so cool! Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the...

Bye, bye Win XP. On July 1, 2008, Microsoft officially discontinued giving out licenses for the operating system, Windows XP. Windows XP was first launched back in October 2001 with hundreds of millions copies being sold worldwide. Microsoft is moving forward with their new OS, Windows Vista.

OVERVIEW Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio 2008, organizations will find it easier than...

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Prometheus) is Telerik’s next-generation ASP.NET UI control suite, which is built on top of the industry-standard Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Prometheus) delivers faster performance, unified programming model and enhanced functionality...

Microsoft .NET Framework is a software component that is a part of several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It has a large library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft...

It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to meeting more of the community people soon. First...

Yahoo’s shares tumbled by as far as 20% Monday morning after talks with Microsoft ended. The Redmond giant increased it’s bid from the original $31/share back in January to $33. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang reportedly was asking $37; Microsoft walked away from the deal. It recovered a little bit...