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Cover Blown on Windows 8 Release?
Did a former Microsoft employee post projected ship dates for upcoming key products like Windows 8?
File System Filter Driver Tutorial
Discover how to develop a simple file system filter driver. The demo driver will print the names of opening files to debug output. The article requires basic windows driver and C/C++ knowledge. However it may be interesting to the people without windows driver experience.
A Web Developer's Look at Windows 7
The new Windows 7 user interface features can offer Web developers significant productivity gains in terms of organizing, finding, and navigating to commonly used resources. This article introduces you to the improvements which can cut significant time from otherwise mundane daily workflow tasks.
The Practical Guide to Multithreading - Part 1
Understand from this guide how and when - as well as when not - to use multithreading.
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