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Title: Mistakes like this are unacceptable
Review: To be fair, I have not read the entire book. I bought this book and "Developer's workshop to COM and ATL 3.0" and I read the threading model part in both, cause I needed to find something out straight away. To my surprise, Bates mentions in page 168 the following: "(Windows shares time slices between processes, not theads!)" (the exclamation mark is in the book). Call me weird, but mistakes like this really bother me. I begin to question the author's credibility and when this happens, I can't enjoy reading a technical book. I keep thinking that maybe something else I read is going to be horribly wrong and I don't like to have to question everything (too time consuming). As far as explaining threading, the "workshop" book is MUCH better. 2 stars is the top I would give if the rest of the book is excellent.
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