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I have just started reading about threading in C, using pthreads. I know that Pthreads are available for Windows, but do multithreaded WIndows based C/C++ applications mostly use Pthreads?
Also in Unix/Linux are Pthreads the main way developers write multithreaded C/C++ code?
No, most will use the thread abstraction of the application/gui library they are using, e.g. MFC. Or in the plain C case, using the windows API directly.
Pthreads stands for “POSIX” threads, which is basically standarized unix(-like), a standard that has little meaning on Windows outside dedicated POSIX emulations like cygwin.