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Team One Beep have focused on the One Laptop Per Child programme and its 1.4 million deployed laptops. They have come up with an inexpensive and robust method to solve the problem of sending educational content to these laptops, which are sent out to...

Tech.Ed 2010 NZ is the event for developers & IT professionals that want to get ahead and stay ahead! This year, Tech.Ed will be once again held at the Sky City Convention Centre in Auckland from 30 August to 1 September 2010. Early Bird registration...

You are invited to the 2010 Imagine Cup New Zealand National Finals . Imagine Cup is the world’s largest student technology competition which challenges students to come up with solutions using technology to the world’s toughest problems. This year, we...

You have until the end of April to tell us what you think about Microsoft! We are interested in your opinions so we can better serve you in New Zealand. Plus, by sharing your opinion with us, you will get the chance to win a trip to the next Microsoft...

Visual Studio 2010 is packed with new and enhanced features that simplify the entire development process from design to deployment. Customise your workspace with multiple monitor support. Create rich applications for SharePoint and the Web. Target multiple...

Today, Microsoft issued out-of-band security update MS10-018 to address the vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374, affecting Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is unaffected by the vulnerability in...

Auckland 22 April 2010 + Wellington 23 April 2010 You are invited to the official NZ launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure. We've lined up two international experts to deliver two keynotes. Plus, to mark the occasion, we're producing a very...

Join Ryan Tarak from Microsoft New Zealand at your local .NET community user group for highlights from the MIX2010 conference! The first 30 attendees at each location will get a free Microsoft "MS DOS" t-shirt! Click here for more information. Don't miss...

April 2010 will be a big month as we prepare for some major events/activities! Stay tuned for Visual Studio 2010 and Imagine Cup 2010!

If you would like to win a trip to the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, simply fill out our survey and you will go into the draw! We are really interested in your opinions – so we can better communicate with you...

To help accelerate New Zealand web and software start-up companies, we are giving them a great deal on software from Microsoft. Its part of our vision of providing the next generation with the best platform and software we can. To help make new business...

Your could win an a trip to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Coming very soon! Stay Tuned!

Mix is where designers and developers like you can learn about Microsoft's broad web platform and tools. You can also network with peers from well-known web companies like Twitter and Facebook, with start-ups that are planning their next big idea, and...

Are you ready to be a Microsoft Certified Professional! Microsoft Certification Second Shot offers you a free retake when you fail your first attempt at an IT Pro or Developer Microsoft Certification Exam, reducing concern and fear of not passing your...

2009 is almost behind us now and on behalf of the New Zealand MSDN Team, we would like to wish you a safe holiday season with your friends and family. Thank you for a great 2009. Looking forward to 2010, we have a number of new products, events and initiatives...

Get ready Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington Tauranga and Auckland! Microsoft Unplugged is coming to you for the last time for 2009 just before the christmas holiday season. During this tour, Mike Zeff , Ryan Tarak from Microsoft and John Daniel Trask...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is a developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Since 1991, the PDC has been the epicenter of Microsoft's biggest platform annoucements including Microsoft...

Thursday 22nd October 2009 marked the launch of Windows 7 around the world. To celebrate, launch festivals were held in Auckland and Wellington to mark the day. In Auckland, the most famous NZ number 7 Richie McCaw bought the first laptop with Windows...

“Developers! Developers! Developers!” Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer makes it clear that he sees helping developers be successful in innovating on the Microsoft platform as critical to Microsoft’s ongoing success. Supporting Balmer’s philosophy Tech.Ed New...

This year's Tech Girls Dinner attracted more than 160 IT industry professionals to the SkyCity Convention Centre. The dinner kicked off with the CIO of Air New Zealand - Julia Raue sharing some of her interesting stories from Air New Zealand including...

The .NET Community in NZ will be offering session in .NET development, SQL Server and Developer Security at Code Camp Auckland 2009. Code Camps are non-profit, and oragnised by members of the local IT community. This year the Auckland Code Camp is the...

Microsoft NZ, in association with HP, offers Tech.Ed 2009 NZ delegates an exclusive opportunity to purchase the latest release of HP Mini 5101 Notebook, powered by Windows 7 Ultimate for the special price of $699 (price includes GST). This represents...

TechFest 2009 is the biggest and best social and networking event at this year's Tech.Ed. Join us at the Auckland Town Hall from 6:30pm on Tuesday 15th Sep for a fun-packed evening of entertainment. The line up this year include Elemeno P, Katchafire...

Team Think took out the Imagine Cup NZ National Finals this April in Auckland and took up the challenge of competing with 70 Software Design Teams around the world in Cairo, Egypt in July. The 3 undergraduate students from Lincoln University competed...

Tech Girls Dinner is a very special evening celebrating women working within the IT industry with inspiring speakers and fantastic networking opportunities. We are pleased to announce Julia Raue, CIO of Air NZ as keynote at this year's dinner. Plus we...