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Microsoft China are coming to Australia! As many of you know, Microsoft is a global enterprise with different subsidiaries specialising in various aspects of the business. China holds the second largest Research and Development Centre for Microsoft after the U.S. Enwei Xie, the General Manager for Microsoft China, is coming to Australia to discuss the great opportunities available in their…
Where to start!? Microsoft’s Tech.Ed 2008 brought with some fantastic initiatives for students (DreamSpark and Students2Business), some great sessions (Mobility *Smackdown*) and some cool technology (Microsoft Surface). Here’s a quick run down of my experiences during the week (some photos below, more on Facebook): Student Day Tech.Ed Student Day was split into two halves: in the morning, over 1000 high…
Tech.Ed 2008 Student Day registrations are filling up fast! With the high school sessions already full in the morning, if you haven’t yet registered for the uni session in the afternoon, you should do so now! Plus, every uni student who attends will walk away with over $1400 worth of software on disc! Read below for more info. What am…
(Update: The event has been brought forward to Friday 22nd August 2008) We have all wondered at some point, just how will our degree help us in the workforce? Where will our skills take us? Just what are all these assignments good for? MACH (Microsoft Academy for College Hires) is your answer. They are holding a Student day on Friday…
Overnight, four Australian uni students were placed first in the Software Design category of Imagine Cup. A huge round of congratulations to - Dave, Dimaz, Ed and Long. A total of 370 students from 124 teams representing 61 countries and regions competed in the worldwide Imagine Cup finals. What is Team SOAK? SOAK is an integrated software and hardware platform…
Today Michael and I delivered a 30-minute presentation on how to get free (and cheap) stuff from Microsoft. We had a great turn-out, with plenty of people registering their interest on this website beforehand. We’d love your feedback – please fill out the short survey at the bottom of this post Congratulations to Bryce, Liz, Robert and our other winners…
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 about how to…
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 see how local…
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 provisional date however and…