Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Microsoft’s Imagine Cup technology competition has some new twists this year that should appeal to more students than ever before.  Student entrepreneurs especially...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mis_laboratory As the semester winds to a close, hopefully we all have a  little time to catch our breath and relax by writing a little code for ourselves.  Knowing that...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technology Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Harold Wong, one of my super-knowledgeable colleagues on the Technical Evangelist team has created a very good blog post on how to create a Windows 8 Virtual Hard Disk...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Recently I ran into a problem with BitLocker Drive Encryption on my work laptop (Lenovo W500) where BitLocker keeps prompting me to enter the 48-character “recovery-key...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory One of the small but sometimes annoying challenges of software offerings in DreamSpark and MSDN is that the software downloads are largely in .ISO format. This requires...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technology Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory In my previous blog post I provided a detailed description of how to create a portable Windows 8 installation (also known as a Windows to Go Workspace) on a USB 3.0 Flash...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technology Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory One of the challenges facing faculty in higher education who want to start teaching Windows 8 app development, is the adoption lag between when software gets released...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/b/MIS_Laboratory Microsoft’s Develop and Platform Evangelism organization has scheduled a series of “train-the-trainer” type workshops specifically focused on building apps for the new...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist As of 12:00pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time, the “Release Preview” version of the Windows 8 operating system is now available in 14 languages for free download at http://preview.windows.com . ...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist US MSP Program Job Description | 2012–2013 Academic Year What are we looking for? If you’re passionate about technology, love throwing fun events on campus, and aren’t shy about sharing your enthusiasm...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Today until Midnight tonight, May 1st , Apress Publishers is offering a free download of “Metro Revealed: building Windows 8 apps with HTML 5 and JavaScript”...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory This weekend Microsoft will host the Tenth Annual Imagine Cup software competition at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Twenty-two finalist teams from universities...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist Beyond coming up with an idea for a Windows Phone or Windows 8 app, the Metro interface encourages a visual design approach for apps that reflects the OS.  Design of a great-looking app is non...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist In checking my e-mail this morning I received a LinkedIn update regarding a pretty interesting Forbes article about the only three “true” interview questions. All interview questions really boil...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is one of the world’s largest student technology competitions, and this year’s events promise to be just as exciting and rewarding as...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory   I am excited to announce a new Imagine Cup challenge based on the Kinect for PC SDK that was recently released. The Imagine Cup 2012 Kinect Fun Labs Challenge...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory As notebooks, netbooks and slates get thinner, smaller, and more power-conscious, optical drives that can read and write to a bootable DVD have now become a peripheral...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory At most Windows Phone 7 app development workshops that I have hosted or attended, we spend the first hour or longer getting everyone set up with the proper accounts...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory HTML 5 coupled with CSS is emerging as the new hot development language. I am delighted to announce that we have created six complete lessons that cover the most...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition is one of the world’s largest student technology competitions, and while the dust is still settling from last July’s record...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory “Mango” Jump Start! Aug. 23-24! Pass it on… That's right, Microsoft MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory I just spend the last couple of hours writing a draft project description for college professors who what to add a mobile application development project to their...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Do you judge a book by it’s cover? Or at least it’s thickness?  One characteristic common to many technical books is how many pages it takes to cover a subject...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory Last night in an emotionally-charged event the teams that were advancing to the final rounds of the Imagine Cup World finals.  The Note-taker team from Arizona...

Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory The first round of competitions at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 World Finals were held today at the Marriott Marquis Hotel at Times Square New York.  Five...