February 2009 - Posts
This week here in Redmond there is a big party: TechFest Here is where the most brilliant researchers we have in Microsoft, showcase their cutting edge stuff. In the t-shirts they’re wearing you can read “ TechFest: the & in R&D ”. They
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Last week, in the Microsoft offices in Australia the first national MSP summit happened. MSPs from all over the country got together for two days with training, technology presentations, games, food, prizes and lots of fun. Luke Kim is reporting all the
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We’ve just launched the High School version of DreamSpark . DreamSpark is all about enabling students; nothing more.That means that if you have a friend, sibling or neighbor that is in high school this is great news. For them if they are a current
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Daniel Paoliello , just posted good news. Free E-books from Microsoft Press. They usually give some books away for free. I downloaded a couple of them and they were really good. Now Linq, Silverlight 2 and ASP NET 3.5 here More free reading (not only
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Web 2.0 has different meanings. There is an online Web 2.0 and an offline one. Part of the Off Line experience is a “new” format of events that is getting more and more popular. There are some MSPs that are running them. They are called Barcamps . The
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MSPs around the world have been “playing” with XNA. They created great stuff, they made presentations in the XNA Tour in Europe , they got the XNA Game Studio 3.0 software in DreamSpark to develop games, they help other students to understand better the
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There are many ways to learn technology around the world. We realize that sometimes the way students can master professional tools is on their own time with your friends. Our goal is to support them with the access to tools, training and a platform to
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One of the most amazing things you find among MSPs is creativity, passion and cool stuff. This is a good example of that. Jacob Korsgaard , a Danish MSP created an Atomic Subbattle Live Messenger Game which is now on Codeplex (10,000 plays). Play it now
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How many times you found yourself writing in little pieces of paper, trying to find a place where you can record your ideas, calling to yourself to leave a message in your voicemail, sending emails to you (autospam?)? And then how much time did you spend
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As I learn in my career it is always a good thing to have an insider nearby. Someone that can give me advice, tips and recommendations that I can incorporate and learn. Microsoft is a big company, and one of the key assets we have is our people. There
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Bill Gates was a student when he created Microsoft , that is something amazing, we all know that the new Microsofts, Googles, Apples, Facebooks are being incubating as we speak And this new invention will come from another student or a group of
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At the beginning the code name was Avalon. The previous version was WinFX. WPF is the graphical subsystem in the .NET Framework. It provides a unified framework for building applications in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP SP2 and Windows
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Jonathan Synnott , is a student at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown in Northern Ireland. He is blogging about two things very relevant for every MSP that is in the last year of their career. The final year project and other MSPs. His final project
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Andre Furtado was a student from Pernambuco, Brazil. Everything started 5 years ago when he found that the MSP program was running in Brazil. He joined in and here you have the full story. This is one example. Today there are 2,835 stories like this around
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Hi! I’ve got a lot of requests about how to programming for Azure Here is a series of tips. Hope you enjoy it. Download the Windows Azure Software Development Kit (January 2009 CTP) The Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation,
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Hello Everyone, Microphone is Microsoft’s online community hosted on Facebook where students can talk directly to people at Microsoft. Microsoft is a really big company with lots of employees, lots of customers, lots of products, and lots of websites.
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Hi, Nicolas, an MSP from France, blogged about one of the little jewels hidden inside Windows 7. In his post, The calculator he explains all the different options you have in this little tool. The blog is written in French, but with the cool translator
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Hey, welcome to Microsoft Student Partners Program blog. Here you will find the outstanding news, activities, projects, events, and technology reviews done by the Microsoft Student Partners around the world! Microsoft Student Partners are a selected group
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