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Did a former Microsoft employee post projected ship dates for upcoming key products like Windows 8?

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.

Even the best-written C++ applications can crash or hang-and end-users' perceptions of the application hinge on how gracefully the application works with the operating system to handle such problems. By registering your applications with Windows Application Recovery and Restart, they can recover gracefully after errors occur.

Discover how to retrieve device path and device instance id for storage devices attached to the system.

Discover how to retrieve information on your computer's devices including the mouse, keyboard, and other peripherals attached to the system.

Multicore processors bring new challenges. See a solution for gaining the ability to scale to the increasing number and types of processor cores.