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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Andrew Lloyd Webber eyes future for Susan Boyle

She "dreamed a dream" on the TV show Britain’s Got Talent, but could Susan Boyle be living that dream as the star of a West End show? It’s a possibility, according to a spokeswoman for Andrew Lloyd Webber, the award-winning composer and producer of more than a dozen musicals including The Phantom of the Opera and Cats.

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