2 major recent changes with MSDN AA First up, there is now a second MSDN AA subscription called Designer AA to compliment the 'traditional' subscription (now called Developer AA). It's a trimmed down version of the original MSDN AA subscription, tailored...

I'd like to think the answer is "ALOT". Here's proof - 18 of the 100 entries in BRW's 2006 Young Rich list coming from the tech sector! But you need more proof than that to convince people. As such, I was skulking around the net looking for some stats...

Students always miss out on the good events. It's true - Tech.Ed , ReMix etc are almost always too expensive for students to afford unless we send them as Microsoft Student Partners . Sure, a lecturer might get the odd invite to these events as special...

In my travels to various universities, a few people (students and academics alike) have commented on some of the 'missing' capabilities of XNA Express - stuff they'd like to see or thought was a bit of an omission. Some of these points were warranted...

Lock this one in your diaries.... Hugh Williams was an RMIT associate professor . He is now Live Search's principal development manager at our Redmond, Seattle HQ. Hugh will be back in Melbourne to present at his alma mater on September 20th to talk about...

I have in my hot little hands around 30 copies of the " Windows Academic Program" CD. It's a special kit coming out of our Redmond HQ that's meant for teachers (and researchers) of operating system units in tertiary institutions. Oh, what a package it...

Some might argue that I'm easily impressed, but I'm pretty stoked on the new search filters Live Search have just implemented on their image searcch function. Going to http://search.live.com/images , try entering the name of your favourite celeb (or anyone...

Si-Mi.com are a relatively new startup coming out of Melbourne , Australia. Melbourne is probably Australia's cultural hub, so it's fitting that a site supporting artists would be based there. Featuring all user-generated content, Si-Mi's motto is "Be...

I've been hearing about one of our new products for education - live at edu - for some time now, but to be honest I hadn't really bothered to read up much on it, but I read the mailcall blog entry about it the other day, which peaked my interest. http...