website tracker
Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

The UK Higher Education Blog

News from Microsoft written by the UK Education team

Browse by Tags

All Tags » launch   (RSS)
Cray’s deskside supercomputer running Windows
According to Jack Schofield, on the Guardian’s Technology Blog ,  Cray have just announced a deskside supercomputer, running Windows HPC (the high performance computing version of Windows Server 2008). This took me by surprise for a number of reasons: Read More...
A chance to get up to speed – with Steve Ballmer in London
At the end of this month, Steve Ballmer will be in the UK, and providing the opening keynote for our UK conference “Technologies to Change your Business”. As well as the usual slew of new product announcements, I noticed that Microsoft Research will be Read More...
EduCoMS launches
One of the programmes I've worked on this year is the creation of EduCoMS .  This is a new community site focused on the needs of IT professionals in both higher and further education using Microsoft technologies.  It's going to be the site Read More...
SkyDrive - 5GB of free storage
I like SkyDrive. Before it was invented, I used to have to load any files I wanted to share onto an FTP site somewhere, and then write clunky links to them. Now, I just drag my files onto my SkyDrive , and then provide a nice graphical link to them, like Read More...
DreamSpark - Free software for your students
I guess this will be pretty big news on the Internet. And if I've timed this right - and you're reading this just after I've blogged it - then you're one of the first to find out. We have launched a programme called " Microsoft DreamSpark ", which allows Read More...
Windows Vista SP1 update
A flurry of emails this afternoon confirms that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released (or at least RTM'd - which means Released To Manufacturing). What that means is that the developers and testers have finished their job, and the product now Read More...
Partners in Learning programme relaunched
Although this information is predominantly about work we are doing with schools, I thought that it is worth publishing on the HE blog, as many universities have links to teacher training and are actively engaged with schools and their development programmes. Read More...
Windows Server 2008 - Launch Invitation
The launch team have just released the link to be able to sign up for the Windows Server 2008 launch event (actually, it's also the Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 launch too). This is going to be held on the 19th March, at the ICC in Birmingham Read More...
Heroes Happen Here - Windows Server 2008
We've been talking about it for quite some time - and the beta and trial versions of the new 2008 products have been floating around on the web. The official launch event for all of the products - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server Read More...
Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 4.0 launch
I've noticed how the use of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems have been growing rapidly in education. I have traditionally thought about "students" rather than "customers", but student expectations have been rising so rapidly, since the introduction Read More...
Product launch invitation: Office Communications Server 2007
Here's another launch that might be of interest to you. This one is for our Office Communications Server 2007, which shifts the convergence of phone, email, fax, IM, web conferencing and voice over IP. You will have seen how different mechanisms of communication Read More...
Product launch invitation: PerformancePoint Server 2007
There are a number of product launch events coming up in the next few months. They may not be as high profile as the two "big" ones - Halo 3 this week and Windows Server 2008 next year - but in terms of more immediate value to you, then the Performance Read More...
Page view tracker