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TechEd New Zealand 2011 will run from Wednesday 24th August until Friday 26th August, once again at SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland.  The list of tracks is available now and we have opened the Call for Topics so you can submit a session or two...

2011 MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP FESTIVAL AUCKLAND, 12 th APRIL Join us at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup Festival and be inspired by our next generation of IT Professionals. This year you will have an opportunity to meet some of the most passionate and creative...

If you are trying to install the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit on Windows 7 Service Pack 1, make sure you have downloaded the February 2011 release of the training kit. The February release includes bug fixes to a number of labs as well as updates...

In a couple of weeks time we are on the road with our latest Unplugged developer and IT Pro sessions. This time round we are covering ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Azure in the developer sessions. In the IT Pro sessions Nathan...

  We still have some space available for our 3 day Windows Azure Deep Dive Hands on Lab training next week in Auckland (Wednesday 23 rd – Friday 25 th February). Abstract The Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism team is pleased to announce...

We still have space available for this Innovation Academy Event for start ups and entrepreneurs on Monday 21st February in Auckland.       The Innovation Academy is packed full of tips from experts and entrepreneurs who know the steps to...

The Windows Azure Platform Discover Event is specifically designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and software start ups interested in learning more about the Windows Azure Platform. These are one day events being held worldwide with the goal...

If you are a start up that has joined our BizSpark programme hopefully you are enjoying your access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools, platform technologies, and production licenses of server products (including Windows Azure Platform...

If you have been following the latest Azure platform developments that were announced at PDC10 you may be keen to try Azure for yourself. Well the good news is that there is an introductory offer that allows you to have a tinker with Azure and get a feel...

An update for the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools was released in the last couple of weeks. The update is available here and provides: A new Bing Maps Control that improves map performance during user gestures The Capability Detection Tool, which scans...

We have just launched a competition for Windows Phone 7 developers in New Zealand. This is a chance to show off your coding skills and be in to win one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices in the country. There are two categories of competition; Trade...

We have opened the Call for Topics page for this year’s TechEd New Zealand. If you think you have a great talk that you would like to share with your peers at New Zealand’s largest technical conference then submit it here . The content team will select...

      If you’re involved in any capacity with software development, or want to understand more about cloud computing, this is a half-day event not to be missed. Come along to the official New Zealand launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows...

Have you filled in the Microsoft New Zealand Developer Survey yet? This is your chance to win a trip to the next Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference in L.A. We really want to hear your thoughts and opinions on how we can serve you better so...

Just a quick reminder that there is an IT Pro Unplugged event running in March in 5 cities: Microsoft TechNet UNPLUGGED Update - March 2010 Join us in March 2010 for the latest Microsoft TechNet UNPLUGGED Update for IT Pros. Come and learn about Office...

I have just posted the Litmos Case Study we have done recently as part of our BizSpark promotion over on the New Zealand ISV Blog . That is all.

This month we’ve started doing some promotion of our three Spark programmes; DreamSpark , BizSpark and WebsiteSpark .  These are programmes created to help students, entrepreneurs, software start-ups, young web design companies and next Bill Gates...

Join us in December 2009 for the latest Microsoft UNPLUGGED Update. Come to TechNet morning for IT Pros and/or afternoon MSDN sessions for Developers. TechNet Sessions for IT Pros: 9am – 12.30pm • Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7: Get it done with Microsoft...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available for download by MSDN (and BizSpark) subscribers today, with a more general availability starting October 22nd (NZ Time). There are also some changes coming to the number of versions of Visual Studio and MSDN available...

Yesterday at PICNIC , Scott Guthrie announced the launch of another member of the family of programmes to help software entrepreneurs get started building their companies. WebSiteSpark is designed for small professional Web development and design companies...

Here is a list of the sessions that have changed since the mini-guide was printed for TechEd New Zealand 2009:  Monday 14th     12:05 – 1:20p.m. New Zealand 4 Was: VOC205 Plunket – Where are all the babies?     Now: VOC206 Manukau...

TechEd New Zealand 2009 is almost upon us and thanks to the hard work of our Track Owners we have a fantastic line up of speakers and content . Hopefully you’ve built your own personal TechEd schedule by now. As is usually the case, there have been a...

As announced on Soma’s blog , Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 1 was made available for download to MSDN subscribers today. If you are an MSDN subscriber you can visit the download centre and download it now. If you want to know more about what is new...

  Nigel , Nathan and I are on the road again in May/June to talk about Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Silverlight 3. Nathan is covering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from an IT Pro’s perspective with no nonsense technical sessions that...

With TechEd North America underway this week (you can visit TechEd online too) we are kicking off the 2009 TechEd season. Australia and New Zealand have ours in September (8-11th for Australia, 14-16th New Zealand). Planning is well underway for our local...