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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 around the country – but sometimes we need...

One of the really cool pre-Tech.Ed events is Code Camp, a great thing to do if you’re attending Tech.Ed (or even if you’re not…). This year Code Camp offers an impressive agenda with multiple streams: Development Programming Languages Behaviour Driven Development Domain Specific Languages Silverlight...

This month’s Unplugged series concentrates on Windows 7 both from a features/deployment/management perspective and a how to develop rich applications for Windows point of view. Here are the details:   UNPLUGGED Roadshow: Windows 7 Special - 25 May to 5 June 2009 Join us for the May - June 2009 UNPLUGGED...

Newsletters seem like an almost archaic means of communication in the age of social networking – even online newsletters. But the truth is a newsletter is still the best way to connect to a whole lot of people and that’s why we’ve done a revamp of our NZ MSDN and TechNet Flash newsletters. We try to...

Every year we collect your feedback as it provides valuable information to help us better deliver our services and products in New Zealand. Starting this month and until April 15 , you may be randomly chosen to share your experiences with Microsoft products and services via either an online or phone...

Did you know there is somewhere around 35,000 people who class themselves as software developers in New Zealand? Of course this includes developers, architects, designers, web devs etc. but still a large number of people making their livelihood as a software developer of some sort. One of the biggest...

Just want to say thank you to everyone who took time out of day to come and share their view of Microsoft and our technologies. We rely a lot on large scale surveys for our take on the health or otherwise of the the NZ developer community, so it was good to be face to face and hear the concerns - and...

Invitation for The Microsoft New Zealand Developers Focus Groups 2008 We want to hear from you. Tell us what you love and hate about Microsoft! Every year we use your feedback to improve our products and services. This year, in addition to the annual online survey, we are planning to hold focus groups...