The Parallel Extensions for .NET was released yesterday. Parallel Extensions provides an easy way to develop software on multicore and multiple CPU hardware with a managed programming model.

We’re very excited to announce our 2nd Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 3.5. We released the Dec07 CTP on 11/29/2007, and from that we have received a lot of feedback from the community and customers. While you have been using our bits, participating in our forums, sharing your insights and experiences, and following along on our blog, we have been hard at work preparing this CTP, incorporating your feedback into it.

Long Zheng of istartedsomething has started an initiative for bringing attention to Microsoft the biggest problems facing the Windows UI. Head on over to the Windows UX Task Force page to submit ideas, problems and inconsistencies with the current Windows UI.

Was supposed to spend the weekend writing and working on a new release for GW3, but instead I wrote the digital locker plugin for Focused Games. Then tonight I played CoD4 and PGR4… so whoops! Here I am tearing up the streets of Quebec in my Toyota GT-One.