We know that your time is short so the NZ MSDN & TECHNET Flash Newsletters aims to provide you with relevant, topical developer and IT Professional related updates from your local community and around the world. Each edition features an editorial...

Technology can be the force that transforms great ideas into real world solutions. And that's the point of the Imagine Cup every year - to use technology to make a difference. These teams from around NZ have come up with solutions to the world's toughest...

Win a copy of Dawn of War II PC game by filling in a quick survey with your Windows Live ID. The developer survey will only require 5-10 minutes of your time. Our dev and his cubicle buddies will share some of their real life stories from the office....

On April 1 2009, join developers from all around the world for the first ever 24 hour day of technology training. Tech.Days will feature 95 live sessions across 5 tracks on current and emerging technologies in developer tools, mobility, windows, office...

I am really excited to annouce the partnerships established with Imagine Cup NZ for 2009. The core objective of Imagine Cup encourages innovation via technology and also encourages closer collaboration between academia and industry. Our partnerships with...

Imagine Cup 2009 is now progressing full steam ahead with teams around the country getting stuck into their projects. Keep up to date with competition annoucements, progress and news by joining the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 NZ Facebook group ! See you...

Annually we run the Tech.Ed conference for IT professionals in the industry to showcase Microsoft's latest technologies and innovation. This year, we have also chosen to deliver the experience online for those who couldn't make the event. Check out www...

Microsoft is looking for final year students, recent graduates and industry candidates who are interested in development opportunities in North America. We're looking for Software Design Engineers and Software Design Engineer in Test. If you are interested...

The New Zealand team performed well at the world wide finals in Paris this year - however it was our neighbour Team Australia who took out the title of Software Design Winner Title for 2008. The theme and location for Imagine Cup 2009 has been annouced...

This week, our winning NZ Imagine Cup team will be joining 400 students from all around the world in Paris for the World Wide Finals of Imagine Cup ! Stay tuned online and track our progress as our NZ teams competes for the title for Software Design winner...

With all the talk about Imagine Cup and this year’s theme on how to utilise technology to enable a more sustainable environment - I thought it would be timely to mention about what we are doing as an organisation in this area. As an organisation, we are...

The theme and location for Imagine Cup 2009 has not yet been officially annouced but after July 9th, all will be revealed. Stay tuned! www.imaginecup.com

A new set of XNA curriculum is now available under the Aademic Resource Centre. It is titled - Overall Basic XNA Game Development Curriculum. It's a 15 hour course and can be found here .

Work as an individual or in a team and build the ultimate game using XNA Game Studios 2.0 for the XBOX360 platform. $75K cash prize at stake plus by simply registering you will get a free 12 months XNA Creators Club Trial Membership. Find out more here...

The World Wide Telescope is a Web 2.0 visualisation software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope - bringing together imagery from the best ground and space based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration...

If you have questions regarding Microsoft's involvement in the tertiary academic space, please email nzedu@microsoft.com with your question, name and contact details. We can assist with questions regarding curriculum and course resources based on Microsoft...

Last Friday saw the 2nd Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational Finals held in Auckland. This year, the 4 finalist teams competed to take out the title of software design winner to represent NZ at the up coming World Wide finals in France. With teams...

Last Thursday, we conducted the preliminary round of the NZ Software Design Invitational. We had a number of teams present to our panel of judges: Mauricio Freitas - Blogger, Geekzone David White - Lecturer, University of Auckland Alex Broughton...

For the first time in NZ, the Microsoft Graduate program is open to NZ students. There are altogether 2 positions on available. For more information, please go to www.seek.com and search for the following positions for more information: Associate...

Thank you once again for those of you who have attended the Faculty Connection Breakfast and the 2008 Launch Wave event during March. I hope it has been valuable and as always if you do have any feedback please let us know by emailing us at nzedu@microsoft...

The Microsoft team is coming on campus this semester to conduct technical demos to your first year students. The demo will include the following scenarios: Learn how to convert your media files into Silverlight and stream it for next to nothing...

We welcome Singapore Airlines to the NZ Imagine Cup competition. With the support of Singapore Airlines, New Zealand can be represent in the worldwide finals in Paris, France this year in July. Singapore Airlines aids the Imagine Cup through providing...

Voting has now started! Support your team now! They’ve got to imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment. You’ve just got to vote for your favourite team and you could win an XBOX 360. Or one of 10 x Windows Vista Ultimate...

We're happy to annouce that a series of 3 posters has been produced to help promote and introduce MSDN Academic Alliance to new and existing IT & Design students in NZ. We will be distributing these posters to you in March so watch out for these soon...

Dreamspark is providing university students around the world access to the latest developer and designer tools at no charge. The first phase of Dreamspark is now live in 10 countries including Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...