Week in Microsoft: multicore OS rewrites, WinPhone 7 casualties, IE security

A Microsoft engineer last week said that to properly handle multicore processors, future operating systems should discard the multitasking systems of today, in favor of dedicating cores to specific tasks. This seems more than a little surprising. The lack of native code development on Windows Phone 7 Series was always likely to discourage developers with […]

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Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6

Some Web designers are staging an online revolt against an old version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which they say is hampering the ability of the Web to move forward in a cool and interactive way. The designers say Internet Explorer 6, which was released in 2001 and since has been updated twice by Microsoft Corp., is crippling the Internet’s potential and slowing down the online experience

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