Microsoft .NET introduces a new suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT. A discussion of the XMLDOM-Document is also included. By Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine.
In this article Stephen Toub explains the new optimization technology of the next Visual C++ version. He also describes the new compilation modes that ensure Common Language Infrastructure compliance and verifyability for the .NET framework.
By David Chickering at Microsoft Research. The WinMine Toolkit is a set of tools for Windows 2000/NT/XP that allow you to build statistical models from data. The majority of the tools are command-line executables that can be run in scripts.