Learn about DreamSpark, It’s Not Cheating, the MSDN Academic Alliance program, how to walk away from Tech.Ed 2008 with over $1400 worth of software… and more.
Michael and I will be giving a 30 minute talk telling you how to get free (and cheap) stuff from Microsoft, in CB02.04.11, at 12.30pm on Tuesday 3rd June.

What: Learn [...]

This week I went to Sydney’s ReMIX08, held on Tuesday at the Powerhouse Museum.
What’s ReMIX, I hear you ask:
REMIX08 is your opportunity to experience all that is new in Silverlight 2, Expression 2, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Live and a host of other great web technologies coming fast and furious from Microsoft. You will also [...]

For a while now Microsoft has been working with Mono, a Novell sponsored .Net implementation for Linux to not only get .Net onto multiple platforms, but also to get Silverlight across to all of the platforms. A key step in gaining a stronger foothold in the flash dominated world.
This implementation, named Moonlight allows for Linux [...]

Have you heard about "It’s Not Cheating"?
Perhaps you’ve added Roger Hero on Facebook, or played the Cheat Street game.
If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, this is basically an awesome offer from Microsoft which allows Australian uni and Tafe students to purchase the entire Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate suite for $75!
What do you [...]

As of now the XNA 3.0 Community Technology Preview is available for download.
XNA 3.0 CTP
This requires a version of Visual Studio 2008 and will co-exist with Visual Studio 2005 and XNA GS 2.0.
Media without XACT is now supported with a SoundEffect class, and Mp3 can be imported straight into your solution, allowing compressed music finally!
Note [...]

Hi fellow IICT students,
Those coming here from my Intro to ICT lecture talk may remember me mentioning the 20th of May as a possible date for an upcoming event, just wanted to say that was a mistake and that I meant 2 weeks later, which is the 3rd of June. This is just just a [...]

Hey everyone, I’m Chris Webster, the other Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). I’m currently in my third and final year of the Bachelor of Information Technology program, so when I’m at uni, you can find me around the Faculty of IT.
Michael’s given a pretty good intro to what Microsoft [...]

Hi everyone, I am Michael Quandt, attending the University of Technology, Sydney. 1st Year Bachelor of Engineering, ICT.
I am also a MSP, that is a Microsoft Student Partner. Basically I do events that in some way involve and encourage use of any Microsoft Product or Technology and everyone learns new things and has fun!
So you [...]