Monthly Archives: July 2009
The ODSTs will be dropping into Cockatoo Island, Sydney next Thursday (6/8/09) and they will be bringing the famous WETA Warthog, as well as a bungie staffer along with them to show off the game to a select group of people. Microsoft Australia is offering students an extra chance to attend, by providing two VIP tickets to the event. To…
Windows 7 is finally done. After a long process of testing each and every part of the Operating System, and ensuring all languages are ready, representatives from every area of the Windows team met to “sign-off” on the Release To Manufacturing build. (7600 for reference) Windows 7 will be publicly available on store shelves and in OEM PCs on the…
You may remember last year that I mentioned an XNA event that I was considering running with Microsoft, which eventually fell through. I did however promise that it would be resurrected in some form later this year, and I am again considering it for Spring 2009. As I plan it with Microsoft, I do need some further information from the…
During an interview recently, Bill Gates revealed Project Tuva, a Microsoft Research project that was started to bring about rich content to support the physics lectures that Bill Gates worked to bring online, free for all. These lectures, called “The Messenger Series” and presented by Dr. Richard Feynman, were presented to Cornell University students in the 1960s. They covered basic…
MCTS Self Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation Author: Tony Northrup ISBN: 0735626197 Price: $145.00
Just last night Silverlight 3 was officially released to the public for general use, along with a new Silverlight website, a virtual launch (SeeTheLight) and the Expression Blend 3 RC (with Sketchflow!). The new features in Silverlight 3 include, but are not limited to: Support for MPEG4 H.264/AAC Full 720p+ support GPU accelerated HD playback Perspective 3D graphics Shaders (Pixel)…
Microsoft’s annual student competition that seeks to solve the worlds problems is on again, and this time finalists will be heading to Poland to compete. The theme this year is the same as last year, the UN Millennium goals. So you can either continue the project that you started last year, or choose from one of the many problems that…
Microsoft is again offering internships to Australian University students for the summer break. These are fully paid internships at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington. So yes this is an overseas internship, however all flights and accommodation are covered by Microsoft, and previous interns report that it quite often pays more than internships locally. There are two available intern positions: Software…