(Credit for photo to svonog <- IC winner) The Windows Live team are running a promotion called BigSnapSearch . Fun prizes through the game "Snap" as you search which can be anything from Virgin Experience Days through to a stay on Richard...

There was a nice article on the digital Bedouin workers rocking up with laptops and enjoying coffee + wifi. Well, who needs a laptop when you can bring your Desktop PC to a Starbucks:  

We are holding an event for UK academics (students supplying a . ac.uk email will be allowed to attend) at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes to help teaching staff understand Silverlight and how it can be applied in teaching. +  The event will have...

My good friend Chris has been working on this for a while and I wanted to be the first to blog about it, but it looks like Allister got their first :-) The site is built in Silverlight and is a set of interactive videos following typical digital users...

Scott Guthrie , a Corp VP has put up a first look at Silverlight 2 and has included 8 part tutorial to whet the Silverlight appetite! ScottGu: First Look at Silverlight 2 (Hat tip to Tim Heuer )

I love this product! I tend not to back stuff up there much but do use it a lot to send files to friends, colleagues and customers when I need to move stuff around the web. And it's now out of beta and has 5 GB of storage! http://skydrive.live.com

HP's UMPC 2133 to cost $630 when shipping in April-   If this is true then I'm so getting one of these?!?!

The Bill Gates Stanford Speech Covers DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Innovation, power of software and students

The skinny: Where? https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com What? Loads of dev and design products Visual Studio 2008 Pro Expression Studio XNA 2.0 and XNA Creators Club membership Windows Server 2003 SQL Express Editions Virtual PC Who? Available to 2 MILLION...

I managed to get Ed and Ben into the MS UK recording studio thing before Christmas to record their sessions delivered across the country online for Channel 8 . Those videos are now all online. Ed has the background and here are the videos are for your...

This is a great contest, very similar to this year's theme in the Imagine Cup and the Interface Design contest (we have a couple of entries in from the UK this year!). Very inspiring! "As I blogged earlier this week, the 150 entries with the most...

I got asked a great question by an Imagine Cup finalist who is doing a Software Engineering project at university. He wanted to know all about how Microsoft builds products like Windows, Visual Studio, Office, etc. So, I toddled off to see what was available...

  Fun game built using Silverlight has just launched on Miniclip.com (a big casual gaming site). Go play here ! :-)

It's been a manic few weeks recently trying to get the Imagine Cup Workshops going for the finalists in the UK Software Design category. They are up here on the UK Academic Team blog - we're looking forward to hosting these guys and seeing what they can...