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Microsoft Surface: real design, development and use in education

With all the buzz about Mix 09 last week, many may have missed that we just launched Microsoft Surface here in the UK. Marc Holmes just posted a blog where he talks about the launch of Surface and the the media coverage that the event generated. But the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:13 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments

Silverlight Insight event for UK Academics

We (the Microsoft Academic Team in the UK) are arranging an event targeted to Academics in Universities and Design Schools in the UK. Silverlight Insight is a one-day event designed to give attendees a solid understanding of the Silverlight 2 platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:39 PM by pbarone | 6 Comments
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Whitepaper published: How to setup a XNA Lab

I have been sitting on this for a while but I think it is worth publishing anyway… Our colleagues in the US published a whitepaper on how to set up a XNA lab called “ Implementation Strategies for Microsoft XNA Game Development in Academic Laboratory Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:14 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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Mike ormond on Silverlight and the Mandelbrot Set

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Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 6:52 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments

Are Universities relevant for employers?

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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 3:11 PM by pbarone | 2 Comments
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Presentation at the Scottish Further Education Unit Event

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Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 3:15 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Free coding e-book

As spotted by Dan on Channel 9 “ Karl Seguin recently released a great free 79 page eBook for .NET developers covering design patterns, unit testing, mock objects, memory management, object relational mapping, and more.  Get it while it's free!” Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 11:18 AM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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New blog: OneNote and Education

One of the best and least known components of Microsoft Office is OneNote . Released initially as part of Microsoft Office 2003, OneNote is an excellent note-taking application. Some of the guys in the OneNote team just launched a new blog dedicated to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:48 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Touch Wall

At Microsoft CEO Summit 2008, Bill Gates demonstrated the “Touch Wall”. It is a similar concept to Microsoft Surface (the touch table which got so much media coverage lately) but it is based on a complete different technology ( and looks like it will Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 11:31 AM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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Windows Embedded SPARK Your Imagination Program Goes Live

Today we announced the availability of the Windows Embedded SPARK Your Imagination program. It is basically a low cost bundle of Software (Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional) and Hardware (one reference board from one of five Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:55 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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