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Wags claim Microsoft’s products mature only once their 3.0 version is released. What’s the equivalent mature version with more broadly deployed standards – say like something with some weight – like, say, HTML?

I’m hoping it is 5.0 with HTML, simply as I’d hate to have to wait a while longer to have a productive target to code against.

I’m very worried about the huge privacy implications and complications that...

It used to be OK, but some real work nonetheless, to handle asynchronous calls with exception handling. This typically involved going to multi-threaded structures which also added some complexity. Visual Studio Async CTP (currently some language extensions but to be a natural part of future frameworks) is now available which naturally handles performing these Tasks – with error handling, concurrency, composable callbacks, timeouts and cancellation tokens. Additional concepts like Combinators are just icing...

For those of you timing your next desktop – or laptop – it looks like we’ve a great year ahead.

Sandy Bridge, the latest new design in Intel’s innovate (tick) & then shrink (tock) strategy was recently unveiled at Intel’s Developer Forum 2010 last month. As always, I headed right over to AnandTech.com to get the latest in depth analysis...

Government Health IT reported yesterday that Kaiser has donated their Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) at no cost. This takes technical terms – used for convenience and accuracy by physicians – and provides a non-technical (less-technical might be more accurate!) translation. I doubt this could do the reverse – from general to specific – as that’s too complex, but this still opens up lots of good possibilities, especially for PHRs and other patient facing portals.