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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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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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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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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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Imagine Cup UK Finalists Touch Down in Seattle
06 August 08 10:13 AM
Part of the prize for winning the UK finals of the Software Design competition of the Imagine Cup was a trip to our head office in Redmond to work with the Popfly team. Dom and Ben flew out on Sunday night and from the video Ben's just posted on his blog
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Live Mesh Now Available to UK Users
31 July 08 09:58 AM
You've probably all heard something in the IT press about Live Mesh over the last couple of months well now you have a chance to go try the tech preview yourselves! Sign up is now open to UK users and if you already have a Live ID then all you need to
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Imagine Cup Update
08 July 08 09:25 AM
Both our Software Design and Embedded development teams put in a sterling effort but unfortunately neither progressed to the final. At least we can take consolation in the quality of the entries that did progress, the quality of work produced by our international
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Imagine Cup Grand Final, Paris
04 July 08 09:48 AM
Over the past couple of weeks our UK finalist teams have been spending every waking hour preparing for the Imagine Cup final where they'll be tested to their limits and ultimately have the opportunity to win the worlds largest and most prestigious student
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Make a video about S+S and win a trip to Macau
24 June 08 10:14 AM
This is a great opportunity for any budding film makers out there... All you need to do is use information from this page to write a script, film a creative video and submit it online and you could be jetting off to Macau! To find out more and check out
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Introduction to Web Development; Silverlight and SQL
15 May 08 07:06 AM
In the fourth in a series of five articles exploring Microsoft Web technologies we'll look at implementing a Silverlight front end for our SQL database/WCF Web Service. Prerequisites For this tutorial you will need Visual Studio 2008 Standard or above
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