TechEd has been a venue for Microsoft to make big product and platform announcements, but it is ultimately a place where developers come to learn. Two sessions—on data privacy and multicore programming—were especially popular with attendees.
The broad availability of many-core processors is changing application architecture, but parallel programming remains challenging for many developers, Microsoft said. In a session titled “The Manycore Shift: Making Parallel Computing Mainstream,” Stephen Toub, senior program manager lead for parallel computing platforms at Microsoft, explained how Microsoft would ease the transition to concurrency.
