What are the biggest improvements that Microsoft has made toward concurrent programming in .NET in the last year or so? It's a minor addition, but in C# 7.0 a new feature was added called "Generalized ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

In many ways, concurrent programming and distributed programming address the same set of programming issues, but there are significant differences between the two, and architects and developers need ...