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Do you want to get yourself familiar and up to date with .NET 3.0 Framework? Then this is your best chance to do so for FREE. Go to this site and register and you can choose to conduct 3 x 2 Hours premium clinics about the new capabilities provided by...

We are now hiring the Academic Developer Evangelist for 2007. This is an unique role where the intern will travel the country visiting every tertiary instition and talk in front of both students and academic staff about Microsoft developer tools and platform...

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...

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...

This Tuesday saw the preliminary finals for the New Zealand Imagine Cup Software Design Competition. We had 7 teams from around the country present (either in person or via Video conferencing) their unique idea to our 3 industry judges. For many teams...

Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, is the world’s premier student technology competition, designed to inspire the world’s best and brightest young minds to explore technological and artistic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I just wanted to take the opportunity on the last 'working' day of 2006 to say a huge "THANK YOU" to the Student Ambassadors for 2006. John, Clifton, Waylon, Jonathan, Rami, Jeremy, Matthew and Jennifer has really made a difference in helping us deliver...

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

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...

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 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...

Check out the Imagine Cup 2007 NZ software design competition for all the latest information on the NZ regiona competition.

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...

From this day forth, this blog will provide information, annoucements, events, training and any other academic related things for NZ IT Academics. Subscribe to this blog via RSS feed and stay up to date.

Any competition requires a degree of talent and skill but also a fair bit of effort. We want to make sure that if you can demonstrate that you have a great idea, we will do everything we can to make it into an awesome idea. Software Design - You will...

More than 600 students packed the Sky City Theatre last Friday for the annual Microsoft Student Day event. As well as inviting Microsoft speakers to demonstrate our latest technology, we invited industry speakers to talk about how they're harnessing technology...

Are you currently studying at the university of auckland? Studying Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Management? We want you to be our representative for 2007! Become the Microsoft student partner and get a glimpse...

It's that time of the year again where we will be going on the road to do our annual technical demo for IT students. We will be doing conducting more than 20 sessions this year across 18 different campuses across the country. More details of where we...