Last week at the University of Derby , we run X48 , a marathon gamecamp where student and indie developers used Microsoft's XNA Game Studio 3.0 to create a game in less than 48 hours on the theme of Evolution. Ed reported on the two days in this blog...

With all the buzz about Mix 09 last week, many may have missed that we just launched Microsoft Surface here in the UK. Marc Holmes just posted a blog where he talks about the launch of Surface and the the media coverage that the event generated. ...

I just came across this project by the Columbia University Computer Graphics & User Interfaces Lab which I think is definitely worth looking at. In their own words, Goblin XNA is a platform for research on 3D user interfaces, including mobile augmented...

You probably heard that we recently launched a Cloud Computing platform called Windows Azure. It is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform and...

Among a number of other things (especially the Silverlight 3 beta and the final version of Internet Explorer 8 ) at Mix 09 we announced that yet another very cool tool from Microsoft Research is being made available. It is the Microsoft Translator web...

Today at the MIX 09 conference we announced the immediate availability of the Silverlight 3 Beta 1 SDK . First of all here are the all important URLs: Developers Runtime: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433 Silverlight 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual...

I used to use a lot Adobe Fireworks for web design work and actually always preferred it to Photoshop to create application mockups and page layouts (I am a big fan of vector graphics and grew up using Corel Draw A LOT). Now for the joy of all Fireworks...

We just announced more details on the plans for the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The Marketplace will be a mean to distribute apps developed for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform which will allow developers to sell their apps at a price they...

With the MIX 09 conference approaching soon, some details on Silverlight 3.0 start emerging after Scott Guthrie’s mention of what’s coming in the post he published back in November 2008 : “Silverlight 3 will include major media enhancements (including...

Lately I have been playing a lot with Windows 7 and saw quite a number of posts from people who are installing it in all sorts of hardware and especially on netbooks. The netbook installation can be tricky because… well netbooks don’t come with DVD drives...

At the Academic Team in Microsoft UK, we are working hard on trying to provide Academics and students with information about our technologies, the innovations we are working on and industry trends we see in the marketplace. We now just published a survey...