Monthly Archives: February 2009

New apps and features from Live Search

I’ve been meaning to highlight a few of the cool things we’re doing in Live Search. I don’t have any direct involvement in the development of any of these—I just think they’re cool. Answer Suggestions for IE8 IE8 is awesome, so go get it. Live Search has these things called Instant Answers where it can [...]

Updated CPU usage article

I made a important changes to the CPU usage code and have updated the article to reflect it. Instead of a critical section, the code uses just the interlocked increment/decrement functions. I also updated the sample demo to use multiple threads to read the CPU usage to demonstrate the thread safety clearly.