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At Build in September 2011, Microsoft put out an architecture diagram, which in Microsoft circles has become either famous or infamous depending on your perspective. The diagram shows Windows Runtime ...

Microsoft's upcoming OS will mark the end of the traditional Windows platform, thanks to WinRT being poised as the dominating platform for Windows OS, according to a report by Gartner. This analysis ...

Based on the image below, and what I have seen written on most blogs in reaction to it and what MS has been saying, it seems that WinRT is assumed to be a sort-of an updated CLR/.NET for writing ...

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 ...

Windows 8 marks the beginning of the new WinRT (Windows Runtime) computing era and the end of the WinNT era, according to a new Gartner report. The report said that the combination of the WinRT ...

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 ...

MUMBAI:Windows 8 marks the beginning of the new WinRT (Windows Runtime) computing era and the beginning of the end of the WinNT era, according to Gartner, Inc. The combination of the WinRT programming ...

My two ZDNet colleagues, David Gewirtz and Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols have gotten themselves into a bit of a lover's quarrel. SJVN says that Windows 8 will be dead on arrival, and yet Gewirtz says that ...