I ll be there at the camp. Looking forward to meet ya there.

Love the song preview feature in WMP12 library and the performance ofcourse….:)

Thanks! Keep an eye (or RSS reader) on the website and opportunities like that will pop up from time to time as I get them.

Basically any student at UTS can get access to a student membership that allows them to develop their games on the Xbox 360, the only things this does not allow is submission of games for sale on the Indie Games service, or the “Premium” content on the creators club website. (Marked as such)

To get a premium membership, they will need to purchase a subscription, which can be done through the console, and possibly online. If you know of any students who could really benefit from a subscription, let me know who, and what for, and i’ll see if I can help out.

Michael

P.S. Sent this to you via email as well, some more info in there if you are the person I spoke to after the event.

Great presentation! I wish I knew about the website before so I could have entered the ODST competition!

In relation to the UTS student XNA full memberships what is the process I would need to go through to allow UTS C# game programming students to have the oppurtunity?

I look forward to your reply

Greg

I can say from my personal experience having used the beta (since Jan) and now the RC that Windows 7 is a massive improvement over Windows Vista, and I could never see myself going back to Windows XP, even on my netbook. I would never expect any company to simply stick to patching an operating system that is now eight years old, and I do not see any other OS manufacturer actively supporting an OS that old. Whilst I recognise that people had issues with Vista, I cannot say I have had the same experience, and with Windows 7 it has been even better, so I must have been extremely lucky.
I currently still maintain an XP Pro machine in my household for a family member (the PC running it is XP era and not capable of running Vista or 7 from a spec point of view) and really prefer to manage the newer operating systems rather than XP, which causes me grief with even just the number of steps I need to use to setup a machine for file/printer sharing.

I respect your point of view, and hope that whatever issues you currently have with the operating system can be resolved. Although I cannot agree with your statement about the “vast majority of PC and XP Pro users” feeling the same as you, especially with all the positive reviews, especially from people like Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson who both were not very big fans of Vista (and have a rather large audience).

That all said, if XP Pro serves you fine and you are completely satisfied with it, then feel free to use it, the only thing I can say is that I hope you do not expect Microsoft to continue to support XP for much longer. I suspect that any major issues you have are Hardware or Driver issues, which I strongly believe cannot be blamed on Microsoft, especially since hardware manufacturers have had since Vista to get their drivers up to date with the new kernel.

Thank you for at least trying Windows 7 before passing judgement, and I do hope that others will try before they decide to either support or damn the Operating System. It is entirely unfair if you judge the OS based on what others have said. That is after all one of the big reasons the beta and RC are open to the public, to let the public try for free, decide for themselves, and even give feedback to make a better operating system that can hopefully satisfy as many as possible.

However just a note, the opening lines of your comment did make you sound like a Windows 7 basher/hater, I notice you moved away from that tone later in the post, but just a note, it does not look good to start a comment by making scandalous statements and directly attacking those who happen to like Windows 7.

For what?

Trying to keep the contagion going I see.

The whole Windows 7 thing is nothing more than a hyped-up gimmick by Microsoft and partners for all of the pie-in-the-sky Microsoft Worshipers.

If Windows 7 is anything it’s just a Vista Service Pack with a few tacked on features, toys, and eye-candy.

Over the last several weeks the new cliche for Windows 7 being Vista with a paint job has been developing into more than just a cliche. Having used the RC version (32-bit and 64-bit) almost exclusively over the last 4 weeks I can definately state without reservation that the new cliche is more than justified: Windows 7 is nothing more than Vista with a paint job.

IT professionals, Network Specialist and Administrators, System Specialist, etc…, will regret having installed Windows 7 on their workstations. Windows 7 will be causing just about the same amount of headaches and grief that Vista did.

Windows 7 is going to be as much a let-down to Vista users as Vista was to XP Pro users. Funny. Most of the people who were dying to get away from XP Pro wound up “upgrading” back down to XP Pro. I call it an “upgrading” because the whole speil of the “XP downgrade” frenzy a few months back was a total insult to XP Pro which is still a better OS than Vista AND since I have been using Windows 7 for awhile I can undeniably say that XP Pro (32-bit and 64-bit) is still a better OS than Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

I will state that XP Pro continues to be my OS of choice. I am not the least bit interested in purchasing another OS that would probably run me about $250 Retail or $150 OEM to take the place of XP Pro, something that continues to serve me more than adequately and satisfactorily. I strongly believe that the vast majority of PC and XP Pro users feel pretty close to exactly the same way that I feel.

I’m not a Windows 7 basher or hater. I just do not think it’s going to measure up to all of the hype and positive previews that it’s been getting lately. Furthermore, I believe that Windows 7 will be as much of a let-down as Vista was and that many people, once again, will roll back to XP Pro.

XP Pro has had it’s woes but Microsoft has done a decent job of refining it. But this whole digression to build an entirely new and different OS with Vista and Windows 7 is a complete travesty.

I am currently working on a API app and currently don’t have any up-to-date textbooks. I currently am tackling memory issues, and will definitely need to tackle threading at some stage, so any help (a good book like this) would be useful to me.