16 January 2009
Surface gets unwrapped at the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Earlier this month Chris Bishop, chief research scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge was selected for and hosted this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The Christmas lectures themselves originated in 1825 when Michael Faraday wanted to Read More...
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16 January 2009
Developer events coming soon
Developer Events Join other developers at free regional Microsoft Technical Events to receive technical 'know-how' demos from Microsoft experts, insights into our latest technologies and a chance to meet and talk to other developers. Free developer events Read More...
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18 November 2008
Which Imagine Cup Category is for you?
Imagine Cup competition is made up of 9 different competitions split across 3 different categories. This year’s theme is around trying to save the world’s largest problems using technology; the challenges that are trying to be solved are focused around Read More...
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18 November 2008
The Winner takes it all
Dominic Green was a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) in 2008 and went on to compete with teammate Ben Nunney in the Imagine Cup 2008 competition. They made it to the UK Finals and had an amazing time filled with numerous exciting opportunities and trips Read More...
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18 November 2008
How well do you know the Imagine Cup? What’s it all about?
https://imaginecup.com/Registration/Default.aspx What is the Imagine Cup? The Imagine Cup is a global celebration of technology and innovation amongst students which aims to solve the world’s toughest problems. After hours of MS mentoring, pitches, finals Read More...
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12 November 2008
User Experience in Web 2.0 – Make your own news CloudUser Experience in Web 2.0
Originally virtually all websites are just text derived from HTML developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1980, and then along came additions to the original HTML; images, tables, formatting and then eventually style sheets. This meant that a webpage could look Read More...
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11 November 2008
A story of opportunity at the Imagine Cup
There are great opportunities to be had at the Imagine Cup; when I went to the UK finals of last year’s competition, I wasn’t expecting much in the way of job prospects. I was a first-year undergraduate in Robotics with no placement year, and all of the Read More...
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11 November 2008
Be Aware that some criminals come dressed in Santa Claus suits
The Holidays Are Upon Us – Be Aware That Some Criminals Come Dressed in Santa Claus Suits The Holidays bring out the best in us, sharing with others, wanting to help, families gathered together to give thanks, the warmth of being with our best friends Read More...
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11 November 2008
Windows 7 at PDC
In January 2007 Microsoft released Windows Vista, only to be met with mixed reviews when compared to the king of operating systems at the time; Windows XP. For the regular user, Vista added only ‘shine’ to the Windows experience at the cost of performance, Read More...
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08 October 2008
New user interface paradigm with Microsoft Surface
I was lucky enough to be able to play with Microsoft Surface and its Software Development Kit (SDK) recently and to present it at the Student Technology Day in London on the 1 st of October. It is an impressive device and an even better platform, extremely Read More...
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07 October 2008
My Pictures 3D Helix using WPF (Part 3 of 3)
We now enter the final part of coding a 3D My Pictures Helix using the Windows Presentation Foundation, we’ve done quite a lot and covered quite a few key areas but still have some important areas to cover: optimising memory usage, camera positioning Read More...
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07 October 2008
The all singing, all dancing ‘I’m a PC’ Campaign
Microsoft has recently launch a brand new campaign called Life Without Walls, featuring ordinary people like you and me, from all over the world, from all different backgrounds. The one common link between them is the feature line of the campaign- ‘I’m Read More...
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07 October 2008
MSP Star Award- Student Daze Summit
After a pleasant flight out I met up with Kris, a fellow MSP, and ventured out to explore the surrounding area, hoping to catch a glimpse of ‘Seattle by night’. Instead I got a sense of how large Seattle was- one centimeter on my map had taken me around Read More...
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09 September 2008
Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Launch Event 2008/9
As the 5 massive buildings dwarfed me upon entering the car park, my first time arriving at the Microsoft HQ was a daunting moment to say the least. However the tension is soon disappeared as I entered the reception of Building 3. It was here that the Read More...
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09 September 2008
Internet Explorer 8 is Launched
As we delve further into the cloud computing analogy of software plus services we need to start to change the way we access and use the internet, and key to this is the browser in which we use as our portal to the internet. Over recent years, the race Read More...
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