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Video: Free Play Lounge, GameCity07 Paul Foster recorded the event I mentioned earlier . Looked like a great party!

We get a lot of requests from faculty to promote the Imagine Cup to their students. To that end, we've pulled together several resources that will make it easier to promote to your students. URL to promote to students to register http://www.microsoft...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend but it looked like a cracking event (pulled together mainly by Claire on our team !). A great event hosted by Nottingham council and Nottingham Trent University. We hosted a bunch of academics and students at two...

Kate put up a post on our Academic blog around a new teaching program we are planning to roll out in the next couple of months and she is looking for feedback and a gauge of interest with any UK academics - specifically both our traditional audience of...

The prizes for the Imagine Cup UK Quiz and Registration have started to arrive - I have a bunch of Xbox 360 Elites on my desk and waiting for people to register to do the monthly prize draw Take the Quiz :)

Like many people...well, most actually missed the cool event which was Mix:UK in September. Ian Moulster posted that the sessions were recorded and now live: We recorded most of the sessions at the recent Mix:UK event and have now made them available...

Students in the UK might be interested in this post from Claire Dillon to see that Microsoft do have developer roles in product groups outside of the bubble that is Redmond. "Few people know that Microsoft have quite a few core development centres outside...

Yay! Our project is live and being advertised - if you are a student, go register !

The second shorter video ( first one is here ) with James Senior and I talking about Silverlight and what you can achieve with a few of the stock demos and me messing about with my old Mac and showing cross-platform debugging of Silverlight. Partner-TV...

Do you like technology? Want to kick start your career while at university? Fancy the opportunity to win a week in Microsoft headquarters in Seattle (Redmond) shadowing the Popfly team ? Or just want to show that your university is better than its biggest...

" On your blog site, describe how you will use Office Ultimate 2007 to excel in your academic studies" If you are a UK student and want to spread the word about the great £38.95 offer for Office 2007 , then this is a great way to go about doing that....

Last month, saw the first every Mix:UK event in London with designers and developers from all around the UK coming to hear about the latest developments on the Microsoft platform. Two of our Microsoft Student Partners were lucky enough to get to go and...