February 2008 - Posts

Fancy staying on Necker Island?
29 February 08 03:46 PM
(Credit for photo to svonog <- IC winner) The Windows Live team are running a promotion called BigSnapSearch . Fun prizes through the game "Snap" as you search which can be anything from Virgin Experience Days through to a stay on Richard Read More...
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Starbucks prank
29 February 08 03:35 PM
There was a nice article on the digital Bedouin workers rocking up with laptops and enjoying coffee + wifi. Well, who needs a laptop when you can bring your Desktop PC to a Starbucks:   Read More...
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Silverlight event for *UK* Academics - 12th March 2008
28 February 08 05:10 PM
We are holding an event for UK academics (students supplying a . ac.uk email will be allowed to attend) at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes to help teaching staff understand Silverlight and how it can be applied in teaching. +  The event will have Read More...
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Microsoft Digital Life
26 February 08 07:21 PM
My good friend Chris has been working on this for a while and I wanted to be the first to blog about it, but it looks like Allister got their first :-) The site is built in Silverlight and is a set of interactive videos following typical digital users Read More...
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Silverlight 2 tutorials from ScottGu
22 February 08 04:30 PM
Scott Guthrie , a Corp VP has put up a first look at Silverlight 2 and has included 8 part tutorial to whet the Silverlight appetite! ScottGu: First Look at Silverlight 2 (Hat tip to Tim Heuer ) Read More...
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SkyDrive out of beta
22 February 08 03:41 PM
I love this product! I tend not to back stuff up there much but do use it a lot to send files to friends, colleagues and customers when I need to move stuff around the web. And it's now out of beta and has 5 GB of storage! http://skydrive.live.com Read More...
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Gadget rumour drool...
21 February 08 03:25 PM
HP's UMPC 2133 to cost $630 when shipping in April-   If this is true then I'm so getting one of these?!?! Read More...
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Bill Gates at Stanford on Channel 8
21 February 08 03:14 PM
The Bill Gates Stanford Speech Covers DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Innovation, power of software and students Read More...
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DreamSpark is here.... Visual/Expression Studio and more for FREE for university students...
19 February 08 10:15 AM
The skinny: Where? https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com What? Loads of dev and design products Visual Studio 2008 Pro Expression Studio XNA 2.0 and XNA Creators Club membership Windows Server 2003 SQL Express Editions Virtual PC Who? Available to 2 MILLION Read More...
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The Inspiration Tour videos on Channel 8
10 February 08 08:02 PM
I managed to get Ed and Ben into the MS UK recording studio thing before Christmas to record their sessions delivered across the country online for Channel 8 . Those videos are now all online. Ed has the background and here are the videos are for your Read More...
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Dell Regeneration/Graffiti Contest winners announced.
09 February 08 11:43 PM
This is a great contest, very similar to this year's theme in the Imagine Cup and the Interface Design contest (we have a couple of entries in from the UK this year!). Very inspiring! "As I blogged earlier this week, the 150 entries with the most Read More...
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How Microsoft builds software
05 February 08 12:57 AM
I got asked a great question by an Imagine Cup finalist who is doing a Software Engineering project at university. He wanted to know all about how Microsoft builds products like Windows, Visual Studio, Office, etc. So, I toddled off to see what was available Read More...
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Silverlight game Zombomatic launched on MiniClip.com
04 February 08 07:59 PM
  Fun game built using Silverlight has just launched on Miniclip.com (a big casual gaming site). Go play here ! :-) Read More...
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Off to Seattle
01 February 08 01:16 PM
It's been a manic few weeks recently trying to get the Imagine Cup Workshops going for the finalists in the UK Software Design category. They are up here on the UK Academic Team blog - we're looking forward to hosting these guys and seeing what they can Read More...
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