Hi Folks! Yesterday we started with our new "You Make IT Smart" campaign and again you have the chance to win FANTASTIC prizes! How can you win? That’s pretty easy. Code two apps for Windows 8, publish them in the Windows 8 store and you have your own Samsung ATIV tablet. Sounds easy...

If you haven’t already, you will start university in just a few weeks (sorry summer is soon over ;-). You will have new courses, new professors, new text books, new schedules... wow… a lot of things to keep track of! That is why this app of the week is all about helping you keep organised...

Let me introduce you this week the famous application Badoo, that recently announced a new mobile application for Windows Phone 7 users. The new app, simply called Badoo and available now in the Windows Phone Marketplace The first time I installed Badoo in my Nokia Lumia 800, I was impressed! How...

Hello everybody, This time I present a useful photo tool that’s not another “wow-make every-picture-look-the-same-effect”-tool. Photo Timeline by Igor Kulmann is simply what its title tells us about it – a photo timeline. The app makes an index of your (also already taken)...

It’s getting hot out there. Temperatures reach 360° this summer with our Microsoft Photosynth Holiday Competition . Share your favorite 360° holiday-panoramas with us and win a great prize! The Swiss Academic Team is excited to tell you about this year’s summer competition....

We proudly announce the winners for Round 2 of the You Make IT Smart 2010/2011. But first of all we like to congratulate everybody who participated in this year’s competition. Just one year ago, the Windows hone 7 got launched and simultaneously we announced it as our major topic for You Make...

We are happy to announce that we are offering students free of charge entry to TechDays , the largest Swiss Microsoft technology event taking place on October 20-21, 2011, at the Kursaal Bern. This is a great change for you to hear best highlights of BUILD Windows , the first Windows 8 deep-dive conference...

Student`s in Switzerland have another great opportunity to win a Windows Phone 7. They just need to participate in a 5 min online-survey and get the chance to win 1 of 3 WP7`s among all participants. There`s no easier and comfortable way to a WP7 that I know. So if you are a student in Switzerland ....

TechDays, the biggest Microsoft Switzerland technology event, takes place 5-6 April 2011 in Palexpo Genève and 2-3 May in Congress Center Basel. TechDays 11 once again features two full days of latest trends in software development and -architecture, as well as new developments in the field of...

Hello Reader, in my last blogpost I talked about why I used Windows-Live as an internal communication-platform for two student-projects. This blogpost is about how to manage your external communication. I will show how to improve your external communication with Windows Live Writer and Wordpress.com...