Academic Care Blog (Gautam's Blog)

Windows HPC Cluster can be deployed in a virtual environment leveraging the Hyper-v in Windows Server 2008 x64 edition - Server or Enterprise. The Virtual HPC Cluster deployment can help use a single machine to build a multi-node cluster for testing or...

Microsoft Community Affairs group has a donation program for U.S. based nonprofit organizations. If your non-profit organization meets the guidelines as described at http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship , visit our nonprofit partner TechSoup at...

Microsoft® Student Partners Program is now recruiting current US college students for campus marketing and technology evangelism roles for  the 08-09 school year. Marketing reps plan campus events around our consumer technologies such as Windows...

To get support for any issues with DreamSpark , Consult the FAQs at https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/FAQ/Students.aspx#contact and https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/FAQ/UniversityAdministrators.aspx visit the Student Union Forum on Channel 8 to get...

Want to develop games that can multiple of your friends can play cooperatively or head-to-head? Creating multiplayer games using XNA Game Studio, requires networking support in the XNA Framework for both Windows and Xbox 360. the XNA Framework released...

MonoDevelop is an open-source IDE that enables developers on non-Windows platforms to .NET applications in C#, VB.NET, C++ and IL. MonoDevelop provides rich IDE developer capabilities on BSD, Linux, Macintosh, Solaris and Windows platforms. MonoDevelop...

Get the latest software, provide feedback about your experiences and help drive your ideas into exciting projects. Participate in this dialog at http://connect.microsoft.com/ where you can Join a connection and a program Download software ...

Want to know the latest information on Microsoft efforts in building Rich Internet applications, that can be hosted in the Cloud with the Windows Live Platform for creating Social networking applications? ReMIX08 is a FREE event at Microsoft's Silicon...

Students often have difficulty finding the information they need to get their homework done because the available productivity tools and search engines are optimized for business professionals, not students. Also help with the tough math problem sets...

All Students at all accredited higher education institutions in US are eligible for DreamSpark. There is no specific work necessary on the school's part to 'enroll'. Given that there is No single method of verifying a student status across all higher...

The Microsoft Enterprise Consortium is a joint program between the Department of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Walton College) and Microsoft Corporation (MS) and is aimed at providing...

I just signed-up for the Microsoft adCenter web Analytics tool - Gatineau. As the sign-up is by invitation only, you can request an invite code at http://advertising.microsoft.com/advertising/adcenter-analytics-registration The process described in...

Learn about Visual Studio Team System’s role-based tools supporting the entire software development life cycle for all roles including architects, developers, testers, project managers, and other business stakeholders, from the comfort of your seat, while...

Get the new VPC image of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 for testing and learning from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7a809d8-8c9f-439f-8147-948bc6957812&displaylang=en . The virtual machine does not have anti-virus...

The Central Ohio Day of .NET is a day-long mini-conference organized by Developers for Developers. The event is a FREE day of technology discussions devoted to helping the local development community improve their technical skills. The event will cover...

The Spring DevCares events feature talks on The Power of Designers in Visual Studio 2008: showcasing the built-in designers in VS 2008. LINQ, WPF< WF and Class Diagram Designer. Reach Your Data with SQL Server 2008: showcasing the data platform...

Microsoft Press is pleased to provide qualified educators one complimentary examination copy of any book (with some exceptions) being considered for course adoption. You may request one copy each of up to three (3) titles per academic semester /trimester...

The Volume license media is pre-PIDed. Hence you have to call support to get a Key when doing an in-place upgrade from the trial to licensed version. Alternatively, Volume license media has the key buried so you can download the media and extract the...