Hi all, A lot has been going on at Microsoft lately: Bing maps has evolved a lot, you can directly see some Photosynth within a map , you can view street side , you can use the WorldWide Telescope , and even see pictures of flickr directly in a map...

As a part of the “ You Make IT Smart: Code – Play – Win ” XNA Game Programming Competition, we promised as an additional prize 10 Microsoft Game Studio Xbox games for the most creative game submission. We have now evaluated over 120 games sent to us and...

Wolltest du schon immer mehr über Berufe im Informatik Sektor erfahren und mit neuen Informatik Technologien experimentieren? Das DigiGirlz Camp von Microsoft bietet dir dieMöglichkeit, inWorkshops verschiedene Informatik-Tools kennen zu lernen und aktiv...

Be part of tech•days, the largest Swiss Microsoft technology event! Academic tech•days 10 is a Microsoft tech•days track organized specifically for technically focused students, teachers and faculty members. The Academic tech•days is a free of charge...

The “You Make IT Smart: Code – Play – Win” campaign has been inviting Swiss students to find out how to program their own Xbox game, download free * software, complete free online learning courses and take part in competitions with great prizes. As a...

Microsoft Research Call for Papers Microsoft Research is accepting proposals for research grants in seminal software engineering areas, innovative software engineering education methods, and improvements in the software-development process. ...

Sie interessieren sich für Corporate Social Responsibility und Nachhaltigkeit innerhalb eines grossen Unternehmens? Sie haben ein betriebswirtschaftliches Studium abgeschlossen und vielleicht auch schon erste Erfahrungen in der Arbeitswelt gesammelt?...

In the afternoon of our second day at TechEd in Berlin we had the great opportunity to get engaged with over 40 MSP’s from all over Europe and meet the Microsoft responsible for the education program in Europe and Corp. After a very warm welcome we had...

We continued today our little tour in Tech.Ed Berlin and stopped for a one and a half hour at the Office 2010 presentation. Reed Shaffner, Product Manager at Microsoft, made a live demo of the new features of Microsoft Office 2010. We will try to present...

Live from Berlin at Tech.ed 2009 your Swiss Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) are here to blog about the conference and the sessions we joined. In this session (12 tips to secure your Windows System (Win7 & 2008 R2), Mark Minasi is here to give...

We are currently at Microsoft TechEd 2009 conference in Berlin and report you some of the best bits of the sessions we are joining. This session, Adding live an intelligence to Windows Mobile 6.5, was about how to use different sensors on mobile devices...

The Internet Explorer 8 Add-On WEB-Challenge calls for Swiss students to come up with innovative ideas for web slices and accelerators that break new ground in the presentation of online information. All you have to do is: 1. Design add-ons (web slices...

Windows 7 is now released! Did you know that Windows 7 Professional has been already available through MSDN AA since several weeks? Presumed that your university or school has the MSDN AA Subscription, you can download it and get to know to the capabilities...

We have all already heard about multitouch mouse pad but until now we had never seen any multitouch mouse. Well Microsoft Research hasn't presented one multitouch mouse but five! All with different technology and with different usage potential, going...

For dose of you who don't yet know Photosynth (I hope there aren`t many), it is a free software that stiches together all your photos from the same scene, in other words, it creates a 3D object of your pictures by automatically putting them together....

Imagine Cup ( www.imaginecup.com ) is an annual worldwide student competition with categories ranging from digital arts to software design. More than 300 000 students from over 140 countries entered the competition in 2009. As with the Olympics, Imagine...

Wir suchen erfolgsorientierte Hochschul- oder Universitätsabsolventen der Studienrichtungen Wirtschaftsinformatik, Wirtschaft mit hoher Affinität zur Information Technology oder Informatik mit hoher Affinität zu Business-orientierten Themen . Sie interessieren...

The You Make IT Smart campaign invites you to “Code – Play – Win”. Find out how to program your own spaceship game, win one of the 200 free Xbox 360® Arcade consoles, download free software, complete free online learning courses or take part in competitions...

Almost 25 years ago, Microsoft presented a new concept of OS by replacing the command line with some visual windows and icons. The same is happening now with the search in Internet. During TechCrunch , Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi presented...

Imagine Cup ( www.imaginecup.com ) is an annual worldwide student competition with categories ranging from digital arts to software design. More than 300 000 students from over 140 countries entered the competition in 2009. As with the Olympics, Imagine...

I guess by now you all have heard about Bing Search that replaced Live Search since May 2009. Something you may not yet know, is that OnlineColleges.net (a must stop if you plan to go to study in the US) has created list of 50 tricks and shortcuts...

If you have ever had problem keeping up with you RSS feed or being able to put all your news, blogs and gadgets together, then you should give a try to my.live.com . Once you logged in with your live account you’ll be able to add your content thru...

Have you already heard about 2D barcodes? Instead of having the data set in a vector like in normal barcode, 2D barcodes have the data in a matrix, which means they enable to store a lot more data (usually v-card, URL or free text). Well, the problem...

At university we are all at one point or another in a situation where we need to make a public presentation. Most likely you’ll go with PowerPoint and choose a nice design with Transitions and animations, but as students we usually need some help to organize...

Ankush Gupta, a Master's student in Computer Science at ETH Zürich Systems Group, was selected to Microsoft Internship Program taking place in Redmond in the summer of 2009. Ankush has a major in Distributed Systems and works under the guidance of Prof...