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Lecturer Only giveaway - Win tickets to Visual Studio / SQL Server / Windows Server launch events
As you may all know by now, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will all be launching (or have already launched) this year. As part of our celebrations, the launch team have organised a number of launch events around Australia Read More...
'Deakin defies drop in uni applications'
From the Australian Newspaper website this morning: " AN aggressive marketing campaign by Deakin University has helped buck a decline of school-leaver interest, making it the only campus in Victoria with a significant increase in undergraduate applications. Read More...
XNA Gamefest presentations are now available online
Gamefest is probably the biggest game technology event on the Microsoft calendar. The 2007 conference hapened earlier this year (in the U.S, of course), and the presentations and some of the audio from speaker sessions have now been posted online for Read More...
Imagine Cup Australia Update - register now for IC08
I run Imagine Cup each year in Australia. It's (primarily) a software design competition, and is open to university students worldwide. The prizes are great, students get treated like rockstars and it's all a cracking good time. The following is from Read More...
Windows OS Kernel for Australian Academics
I have in my hot little hands around 30 copies of the " Windows Academic Program" CD. It's a special kit coming out of our Redmond HQ that's meant for teachers (and researchers) of operating system units in tertiary institutions. Oh, what a package it Read More...
Channel 8 - New student community site launched on Sunday!
Exciting news from the U.S Academic team this week - Channel 8 has gone live! Before anyone gets really excited (as I did) and starts imagining a TV channel dedicated solely to IT students, Channel 8 is not a television station (although that would be Read More...
Imagine Cup Australia Winners
Part of my responsibilities in my role with MS is to run the Australian leg of Imagine Cup. It's a worldwide software development competition for uni students, with a variety of prizes and benefits for the students and uni's involved. This year, the finals Read More...
Microsoft 'Faculty Connection'
Semester 1 is about to end in Australia - which probably means plenty of you will be flat out marking assignments and planning classes for next semester. Microsoft's Faculty Connection is a site that operates (in conjunction with MSDNAA) to do exactly Read More...
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