Your link talks about user-level threads which are not real threads like what Apache/etc use. "User-Level" threads are also known as "light-weight" threads which is what the task system does in ...

Will WinRT thrive in the guise of UWP, or are we looking at a repeat of the demises of Silverlight and ActiveX? With the start of the Build conference a day away and the official Microsoft Build app ...

It's not like iOS where you "workaround" these limitations of the WinRT/Cocoa Touch API. On Windows 8 the workaround is simple; use Win32 and design your app like you always have. If Metro expects to ...

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Microsoft unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT).

Microsoft unveiled a preview of authoring support in an update to the C#/WinRT tool used to help C# developers more easily work with interfaces to the Windows Runtime, the underlying infrastructure ...