As the exec owner of Tech Ed for Microsoft New Zealand I receive a lot of questions about the logistics of putting on an event of this size. Attracting 2000 attendees, Tech Ed is the largest professional conference held in New Zealand and we’ve been running...

Microsoft NZ is hiring – I’m looking for an outstanding person to join the Developer and Platform team as a developer evangelist! The Developer Evangelist position is a technical role with the mission of reaching and engaging with the broad community...

The Developer Tools Product Marketing Manager is focused on building the success of Microsoft’s developer tools solutions in the New Zealand market. The developer community is the lifeblood of Microsoft’s business and the Developer Tools PM plays a pivotal...

In case you hadn’t heard – the Internet Explorer 9 release candidate was launched today. It’s fast, it’s clean, it’s secure – give it a whirl…

Calling all Microsoft Developers and those involved in Application Development! The inaugural New Zealand Visual Studio ALM Conference , sponsored by Microsoft NZ, is kicking off in Wellington on the 6th & 7th April 2011. If you are part of a development...

Tech.Ed Online is here! Tech.Ed Online is the best way to catch up on all the latest Microsoft technology updates and training information from Tech.Ed NZ and around the world. With more than 170 sessions available on-demand or for download from Tech...

In case you missed the announcement at the Microsoft WW Partner Conference last week – the MS Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be held this year in Redmond on October 28-29. This is the first time the event has been hosted at the mother ship...

I’m involved as a judge for the New Zealand Internet Industry Awards . The objective of these Awards is to showcase the transformational impact of the Internet on the community either in its application through businesses or community organisations. ...

We’re all extremely proud here at Microsoft New Zealand today – Team OneBeep from the University of Auckland took out 3rd place at the worldwide finals in Poland for the Imagine Cup, the first time a kiwi team has progressed beyond the initial rounds...

So we’re officially off and running for 2010 with some great interest shown in the first week of sales. If you have a great talk and you’d like the opportunity to present this year go to Mike Zeff’s blog for all the details on how to submit. Good Luck...

We’re proud to announce a combined Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure launch for New Zealand. It will be a half day event covering the very latest thinking in software development and cloud computing. We have some top notch international speakers lined...

MIX is the big Microsoft web/UX conference. There’s a pile of exciting announcements coming this year so don’t miss out. We have a sizable kiwi contingent in Las Vegas – and not just hitting the poker tables – but if you’re back in NZ wanting to be in...

Here in the Developer & Platform group at Microsoft NZ we’re constantly looking for ways to help and connect with New Zealand technical audiences. One of the best ways is to get out there and meet people which we do through our regular UNPLUGGED sessions...

Spark your ideas into life! Turn your dreams into reality with the best software from Microsoft. To help accelerate New Zealand web and software start-up companies, we’re giving them a great deal on software from Microsoft. Its part of our vision of providing...

Alicia Keys fans will be able to watch a unique concert this Thursday being broadcast live from the Apollo in New York. Thanks to Microsoft Silverlight, fans will be able to control the action by switching between one of five camera angles. The event...

One part of my team’s mission is to evangelise our Software + Services (S+S) strategy and our cloud offerings, with an emphasis on Windows Azure . As part of this I get to present many sessions that seek to explain our cloud strategy, It would be fair...

With the commercial launch of Windows Azure coming on Jan 1st 2010 we’re running a competition to celebrate. Check out the details and fine print , but all you need to do is request an Azure token (these are limited so be in fast), then deploy an app...

Excellent keynote from Steven Sinofsky opened the morning – how we built Windows 7, what a great story to tell to a room full of developers. Steven showed off a whole pile of new hardware from netbooks to ultra-thin notebooks, server strength workstations...

A beautiful late autumn day in LA and thousands of developers descend once again on PDC. You may have heard something about cloud computing over the last year or so – well, there’s no escaping the next computing application model here at PDC, on day one...

December Unplugged – It’s Big! We’ve seen enormous demand for our December Unplugged tour over the last week, so I’d encourage you to register for your free place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Arrived in LA today and ready for a full on PDC week. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week…

We have a big line up planned for our December Unplugged tour through New Zealand. It’s post- PDC (MS Professional Developers Conference) so of course we’ll be focusing on Windows Azure along with what’s coming in Visual Studio 2010 . On the TechNet side...

I’m looking forward to PDC again this year. Last year was the first time I have had the opportunity to attend and it was a real experience. We unleashed Windows Azure on the world and laid out the Microsoft cloud story, previewed the Office Web Apps plus...

Did you know there’s a whole lot of resources available to help you get up to speed on our latest technologies – and it’s all free! It consists of a set of courses with each course including a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get...

We’ve just launched a beta wave – Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2. Darryl has written a great blog post on the new VS 2010 SKUs, but here’s the skinny: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN : the comprehensive suite of...