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If you are using Windows 8 for teachers’ laptops, then you might want to make a note of this video, from the Windows team. It’s a great way to explain how to use some of the new features of Windows 8, and the way that you can have both existing Windows software as well as the new Windows 8 apps. It’s...

Good morning Queensland schools. Hope you enjoyed your break I know, work intruded a bit with some planning and prep, and you were only just starting to wind down and suddenly it's back into another semester. Whilst you were away, we planned a few things, so I thought I'd give you a quick post-holiday...

Seriously…There’s a World Championship for Microsoft Office, and it's been going for 13 years. Last year students from 52 countries gathered to compete for the coveted title of Worldwide Champions in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.   The competition attracted more than 285,000 unique...

Last week I announced the date for the 2013 Microsoft Australia Education Partner Summit – on Monday 25th March in Sydney, and the fact that we've got Anthony Salcito kicking off the event with his characteristically engaging story telling on the future of education, and our role in supporting...

The new Office has already been made available for our education customers as well as for consumers, and to go with it, there's a pile of new training courses under the 'Ignite' brand for partners and customers coming up in the next couple of months - and some of them are free! The courses are ideal...

The new Office has already been made available for our volume licence customers ( yep, that pretty much means every education customer in Australia has been able to install it since early December, so I know what some IT teams will be busy with over the summer holidays ). Well, to go with it, there's...

To coincide with the release of Windows Phone 8, IT Masters are offering a free short course in developing Windows Phone 8 applications.  All facets of the course will be delivered online in 1 1 / 2 hour sessions, with live, after hours Workshops being run by one of the industry’s leading experts...

Are you using Office 365 for education , or thinking of it? Well, there's some help available in the IT Academy programme to ensure all your staff, students and administrators are using it to its fullest potential. Which, let's face it, can be a huge task for a school or institution. Each individual...

Less than a week ago, I wrote about the free Windows 8 programming ebook " Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript " from Microsoft Press. The link I gave then was to the second version, but five nights have passed, and Microsoft Press have now released the full and finished...

According to the Australia Skills Gap Survey 2012 , 7 out of 10 of organisations find it difficult to find individuals with the correct combination of both technical and generic skills. And we can help with that!  We have a program called Microsoft IT Academy which lets education institutions deliver...

Yesterday I wrote about the new Lenovo Windows 8 tablets and touch laptops . Today, I've been sent details of workshops being run at Swinburne University of Technology on 24th October, with a chance to spend two and a half hours with a Lenovo Tablet PC and OneNote, learning how to use OneNote to support...

Doug Thomas is in the part of the Office team that writes help content for Office on the Office.com website, and in the help pages of the software. And he's recently branched out to producing mini webinars to help you discover new parts of the Office suite. They're run every week, but unfortunately for...

We're offering a series of technical training events for partners, focusing on the new Office and Office 365. They are coming up over the next few months – first in Melbourne in December, and then in Brisbane and Perth in early 2013 ( What, 2013 already. Where's the year gone?). ...

My colleagues over in the US create and update a handy one slide summary of Windows Azure resources that are specifically designed for developers using the cloud in the public sector – either because they are in public sector organisations (including education ones) or for people developing apps...

On Thursday 11th October, Paradyne are running a free morning workshop on Office 365 for education , at our offices in Melbourne. (For some background, you can read more about Paradyne's implementation of Office 365 for education at Woodleigh School in Victoria here ) I'm pretty sure that there will...

Over on our Microsoft News site, there's a list of " 10 Things You’ll Never Have to Say With the new Office ". They are all good thoughts, but there are two that are particularly brilliant for me: Use Word to load and save PDFs And once you've got them open, you can edit and save them, or copy...

Three new tertiary level courses are now available on Faculty Connection each with instructor guides, PPTs, labs/tutorials, and videos. There are tons of courses on the site, and although they are designed for tertiary students, I'm convinced that they are useful for many others too, including high school...

Last week I posted a series of blog posts of Office 365 for education videos, produced by my colleagues in the US, sharing some of the things that Office 365 makes possible. And I realised that it would be helpful to stick them all onto one page, rather than four separate ones. They were created to help...

Our global programme of Windows 8 DevCamps continues, and we've added a further Windows 8 DevCamp in Australia, just in case you missed the seven run earlier this year. The next opportunity for Australian developers of education apps to learn about Windows 8 programming is the day before TechEd Australia...

Microsoft partners in Australia have access to a wide range of training and development programmes. Most of our product training for different roles (eg sales teams, deployment specialists etc) is available online, so that you can complete the training when and wherever you want. Here’s some of the ones...

Yesterday I wrote about Generation App, a guide to creating Windows Phone apps in 30 days . But I missed a rather obvious addition – what about Windows 8 Metro style apps? ‘Metro style’ apps are built for the new Metro touch interface for Windows 8, and will be able to run on any Windows 8 device, whether...

The Generation App website, from the Windows Phone team, is a really well structured guide to developing apps for the Windows Phone. And ‘well structured’ means that it talks you through a 30-day plan to design, build, test, distribute and monetize applications for Windows Phone – and connects to all...

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in education is a recurring topic that is coming up in conversations, and pops up in the media regularly too. There isn’t a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to BYOD in education, as each institution has different needs, policies, attitudes and current position. For some education...

We’ve just announced registrations are open for TechEd Australia 2012, in September in the Gold Coast. Every year, TechEd brings over 2,500 IT Professionals and Developers up to speed on the latest Microsoft technologies. And with 10 tracks over 4 days, there’ll be plenty for everyone to...

The Microsoft Press team have just released another free ebook, with downloadable versions of Introducing Windows Server 2012 ebook. This is a technical ebook – it’s not for the average user, but if you want to understand what’s new in Windows Server 2012, it’s a good way of getting up to speed. It’s...