Microsoft Academic Days is a conference series for post-secondary researchers & educators. Academic Days on Databases & Operating Systems will take place in Toronto from May 23-25th. The conference will host approximately 100 top researchers from...

My colleague over in the Visual Studio Express team, Dan Fernandez, has a great blog on the announcement that Visual Studio Express is now completely free! http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/04/19/579109.aspx Check it out!

I got this from a reader of my previous post . I thought many of you would be interested: ---------------------- http://spaces.msn.com/bhandler/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!730.entry

One of the core aspects of my job is to help Canadian Computer Science teachers get access to the resources they need from Microsoft. This is harder than you might think. Not because we don't have resources for teachers (on the contrary), but trying to...

On May 4th, I'll be speaking at the annual ECOO (Educational Computing Organization of Ontario) conference. Microsoft has sponsored the event every year and I've been a big fan of the conference. Unfortunately this year we had to scale back our sponsorship...

So the other half of my job is still focused on the student community in Canada (we also call it the Academic community). In any case, I am always trying to figure out how to better understand the Canadian student community and what they think about technology...

My new job at Microsoft Canada is Audience Manager for the Canadian Architect community. It's a pretty cool job and to be completely honest, there's a lot to do but I have an incredible team to work with. For example, we have 3 individuals (Carol Roy...