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Try Microsoft’s Cloud Platform for Free!
07 October 09 06:02 PM
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform allowing you to build and deploy scalable .NET applications online. Cloud Computing is a hot topic and likely to be a key part of of many organisations IT strategy moving forward. As a student now
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Student Celebration Day Videos
03 July 09 02:13 PM
Just as we’re heading off to Cairo for the Imagine Cup worldwide finals I want to give you a flashback to the UK final event … Previously I published the slides from all of the Microsoft Research talks delivered on the day and now, finally I have the
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Kodu is Here!
01 July 09 03:56 PM
Have you ever wanted to create your own game but don’t want to get your hands dirty with code? We now have the answer… Kodu! Kodu allows you to build games using traditional programming paradigms such as conditional statements and loops but without having
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Office Ultimate for £38.95
05 June 09 02:59 PM
Just a quick signpost to the Ultimate Steal , a programme that allows UK students purchase Office for a seriously reduced price. I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before but thought it was worth resurfacing as its a cracking deal and for those of you in
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Getting Started with Azure #1
19 May 09 06:06 PM
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform allowing deployment of .NET applications with flexible scaling. My colleague Paolo recently wrote a great introductory article for our Faculty Connection newsletter which outlines the fundamentals.
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Build on IE8 and Win a 360 Elite
15 May 09 03:39 PM
Microsoft are currently running a competition where you can build an IE8 Accelerator , Web Slice or Visual Search to win and Xbox 360 Elite as well as promotion for your project in a range of Future Publishing titles. Mike Ormond has all the details -
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Free MCTS Certification Through DreamSpark
08 May 09 03:08 PM
For a limited time Microsoft is offering free vouchers to sit an MCTS exam through the DreamSpark programme. The MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) stream is aimed at developers and IT professionals and is available in multiple flavours
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Student Celebration Day Slides
01 May 09 08:31 AM
To follow on from yesterday’s post I wanted to share the slides from the MSR talks: MSR Overview - Andrew Herbert Getting from A to B: fast route-finding using slow computers - Simon Peyton-Jones Curing Cancer, Halting global Disease Outbreaks and averting
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Student Celebration Day
30 April 09 12:12 PM
Yesterday we held a big event at MSR (Microsoft Research) Cambridge to celebrate the success of UK MSP s and Imagine Cup Contestants. The day included a series of fascinating talks from MSR and Microsoft (slides and video to follow shortly) and
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X48 Update – Games Now Available for Download
29 March 09 11:09 PM
A really quick update on X48 – all the games are now online so you can see for yourself what can be achieved with XNA, 36 hours and a crate of Red Bull! Seavolution – The winning game from X48 Technorati Tags: XNA , X48 , Microsoft , Pixel Labs , Channel
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X48 Wrap Up
23 March 09 05:26 PM
It’s all over - early Saturday evening 80 exhausted students left Derby University for home after spending 36 hours producing some awesome games using XNA . The top three prizes went to: First Prize - Huddersfield Green's Seavolution Second Prize - Huddersfield
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Students to be able to develop apps for SkyMarket for free!
12 March 09 11:21 AM
Kudos to Paolo for getting to this one first. Simply put when Windows Mobile 6.5 launches an accompanying app store dubbed Windows Marketplace for Mobile (codename SkyMarket) will also launch. Developers will be able to build mobile applications and for
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MSDNAA Software HowTo Video
20 February 09 04:43 PM
MSDNAA is Microsoft's subscription for technical schools/colleges and universities which allows them to offer their students access to a whole raft of Microsoft Software for free. Access is granted in one of two ways - either physically (an administrator
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IT Academy Student Pass - Free eLearning
13 February 09 10:31 AM
A little while back I posted about a great new programme we launched which gives students free access to official Microsoft eLearning courses. To sign up you need a unique code which authenticates you as a student, the great news is these codes are now
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Silverlight on Linux - Moonlight
12 February 09 02:02 PM
Yesterday Miguel de Icaza posted on his blog that Moonlight version 1.0 (the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix) has now been released. Moonlight is a collaboration between Microsoft and Novell as part of the Mono project and is a great
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