Dear readers, Our writer on this team blog, Muhammad Arrabi, decided to pursue other paths outside Microsoft. In his words:   Dear friends, After 2 years of evangelizing all the great startup benefits from Microsoft (e.g. www.BizSpark.com ), and...

Check the new channel out. The community will post interesting videos & interviews with some of its guests. Watch the Community’s Interview with Yousef Khalidi on their Channel Watch the community’s interview with Ayman AlDahleh This work is licensed...

    Learn Windows Azure WATCH LIVE ONLINE 9AM - 5PM PST, TUES, DECEMBER 13 Join us LIVE from the Microsoft Redmond Campus to learn how to get started building applications for the cloud from Microsoft technical leaders Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell...

If you prefer not to receive future e-mails from Microsoft Jordan, unsubscribe. Microsoft respects your privacy. Privacy statement. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All right reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

  New York University in Abu Dhabi organized a big Hackathon in Nov 2011, flying over 50 students from surrounding countries. The Jordan University for Science & Technology ( JUST ) team (our MSP Hamza Kofahi was the team lead) got 1 st place...

  Microsoft was the proud Gold Technology Sponsor of the first “TEDx Youth” in Amman (Nov 20, 2011) – official name is TEDxYouth@Amman . (The picture above does not show all the sponsors – for a complete list please see this page ). Each student...

Kulacom has completed the tests and just got enrolled as the first Hoster in Jordan part of the Webspark program. WebSpark program offers tested & discounted hosting options for its members. Microsoft gives those companies free access to our latest...

these students rock – came from 3 universities (Princess Sumaya university, German Jordanian university, & Petra University) and got all the way to 3rd place world wide. Nice job Yousef Wadi, Monir Abu Hilal, Hani Abu Huwaij, and Mohammad Azzam.  ...

  There are so many competitions related to Windows Phone 7 now it’s hard to keep track! I’m including 3 – I encourage you all to participate:   1- Yalla Student Apps Grand Prix – your students can win a Phone every month! The student with the...

Today Nokia’s CEO at Nokia World in London unvelied their first Windows Phone 7 devices! They are called the Lumia 710 & Lumia 800. In his words “Lumia is the first real Windows Phone”. I can’t wait to get my hands on them. What are these phones?...

Hi All; “Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit, In Depth” contents are very interesting. You can download it from the link below. · 246 Pages · Published Date: 11 Oct 2011 · Includes all controls from the Windows Phone Toolkit Aug 2011! · 22 Chapters...

I get many questions about how to learn more about Windows 8. You can find the best resources from Microsoft on the following sites:   BUILD Windows – sessions from the conference: http://www.buildwindows.com/ Official Windows Team Blog: http://windowsteamblog...

Below you will find a great opportunity for Jordanian student teams to participate on an International Competition hosted by the University of Washington. Besides the opportunity to come to Seattle and interact with several mentors, players and other...

  From ArsTechnica’s article http://arst.ch/r4t : Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests...

(هذه مقالة خاصة بي ولا تعبر عن رأي مايكروسوفت الرسمي الذي يمكن قراءته على موقع مايكروسوفت)   من النادر بحق أن يكون لشخص واحد هذا التأثير الكبير على العالم: من نشر الأجهزة الشخصية إلى الواجهة الجرافيكية إلى حتى الكمبيوتر النقال، وأخيرا صناعة نشر الموسيقى...

كل أسبوع سأقوم بعرض فيديو أعجبني من الفيديوهات المشاركة في مسابقة www.iaraby.com   اليوم أعجبني فيديو عن استخدام http://SkyDrive.live.com Sync with your local Folders. عن طريق هذه الخدمة يمكنك الحصول على 25 جيجابايت  وفتح ملفات اوفيس على النت...

It’s my pride and pleasure to share with you that a Student from Jordan University has joined the “$1000 Club ” – making over $1000 in sales from WP7 Apps . And this is ONLY in 3 months! Microsoft Innovation Center in Amman...

Jump Start Mango! Just released today! http://wpdev.ms/wpmgojs · Entire course on Channel 9: “ Building Applications for Windows Phone Mango Jump Start ” · Learning Partners will have access to the course via Courseware Library to use it for further training...

I wanted to share this nice Beginners Video Series on Programming WP7 in Arabic Language. I think this is useful for students. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18034010598EAA53 also check www.iaraby.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons...

4 Interns at Microsoft Innovation Center started in July 1st not knowing WP7. by end of August (less than 60 days) they had 10 Windows Phone 7 Applications DONE! 4 of them were already on the Marketplace, and they made over $350 in money! If they can...

Looking for Arabic Content about Technology on the internet? Interested in creating more Arabic Videos about the latest Microsoft Technologies? Create videos and possibly win with this nice community initiative to enrich the Arabic Online Content for...

What fuels your passion? Deciding where to start your career can be as nerve-wracking as it is exciting. Maybe you don’t know exactly what you want to do. Maybe you don’t even have a technology background. Fortunately, Microsoft will help...

Note: the team (Yousef Wadi & Monir Abu Hilal) will arrive in Amman Airport on Saturday July 16th after midnight (3am) (technically Sunday 17th morning). It’s my utmost privilege to share with you the great achievement of the Jordanian Team...

Today the top 6 teams gave their final presentation. The Jordan Team OaSys presented last. They did their best show to date… and when everybody thought they were done, they said: “ One more thing , today morning we wanted to do something crazy , and here...

The Judges went around this morning listening to Round 2 teams and giving tough feedback. One of the judges was very tough during the Jordanian Team presentation. Oasys team members were very tired afterwards and couldn’t focus much. Most tried...