Well, all is not lost. If you still want to catch some of the great sessions from TechEd2008 NA, you can do so Here.

See the announce of Silverlight 2 beta 2, or the release of the CTP for the ADO.Net Distributed In-Memory Cache technology, and this is all just part of the Keynote!

All of it is at TechEd Online, and all of it is free to download. (Specially sized for your Zune or any other portable player that can do 320×240)

Plenty of discussions and content for you to browse as TechEd 2008 continues, enjoy!

- Michael

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Congratulations to Bryce, Liz, Robert and our other winners on the day! Thanks to Steve, Denis and Albert who lent a hand with the coordination of the event

You can view all the photos and the slides from the day on the Events page.

Don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the event below!

-Chris

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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.

Everyone who comes will leave with a showbag full of free gear!

Register your interest by submitting your email address below… or just turn up on the day! Everyone who registers their interest below will go into a draw to win xbox caps and t-shirts, atomic caps and t-shirts, some Microsoft Hardware, copies of Age of Empires III, copies of Vista Ultimate, or perhaps some of the world’s first copies of Microsoft Expression Studio 2!

This wonderful brochure was created for us by Janek Krause - janekkrause@gmail.com - Thanks!

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 Australian innovators are creating the next generation of engaging websites and unprecedented user experiences for the web.

Some of the more technical stuff went straight over my head, but what will stick with me from Tuesday was a couple of the presentations on Expression Studio 2! I might even be convinced to give www.cyberbullying.info a makeover, especially I now have my hands on a copy of Expression Studio 2! There are vast improvements over Expression Studio 1, if you’ve tried it out!

There were also some other great sessions covering Windows Live, Silverlight and Microsoft Virtual Earth! I didn’t realise how good Microsoft Virtual Earth was! Make sure you check out (Sydney) city using ‘Bird’s Eye View’…

EDIT:

Thanks to Nick Hodge, check out:

• the action on Twitter surrounding Remix: http://twemes.com/auremix
• all the photos from the Sydney and Melbourne event on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/auremix

(5/6/08) You can now recap, relive and revisit ReMIX 08 at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix08/index.aspx

This implementation, named Moonlight allows for Linux users to view Silverlight applications online just as any Windows or Mac user would, and with many web developers praising Silverlight, this should only be a benefit to the web development community.

For the Linux community, this also has the extra bonus of allowing Desklets to be created, this is synonymous with Adobe AIR, which allows desktop applications to be developed by web developers without having to learn advanced skills.

(Source: http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/05/14/moonlight-silverlight-for-linux-is-available-now.aspx)

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 get in Office Ultimate?

• Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 - new interface, better picture, charting and graphics tools to help you produce better looking documents
• Groove 2007 - work anywhere, at any time - online or offline!
• Outlook 2007 - features a new "To-do" bar - organise your life (my favourite program!)
• OneNote 2007 - a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather any notes, pictures or information

All this for $25 per year, or $75 for life!!

Guess what! This offer was due to finish on the 15th of May, however we can now tell you the offer has been extended until October Indefinitely!

This offer has just been extended indefinitely, so now you have plenty of time to take advantage of it, and tell your friends! - Michael

Check it out online, or contact us and we’ll get a CD with the software on it to 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 there is no Xbox360 support in the CTP release, however there will be with the final release, currently only PC and Zune.

Now I am off to see what else they added. Enjoy.

(Remember, this is a testing/preview release and is not a reflection of the final product.)

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 is not official yet.

Check back here soon for then final date and time as well as other details you will need to find out how to get free or cheap stuff from Microsoft.

Michael

Michael’s given a pretty good intro to what Microsoft Student Partners are, and the sorts of things that we do as MSPs - basically we’re here to share our experiences with you, and get you using the best of Microsoft’s products.

My interests are more aligned with the business-side of IT, as well as in web and multimedia design - so I can tell you all about some of the office, design and front-end development products/services that Microsoft offers.

Shortly, Michael and I will be giving a talk at UTS about “How to get free stuff from Microsoft” - so stay tuned in the next week or so to see what we’ve got to offer you.

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 are on the website that is now the home for us (there is 2 of us) MSPs. Here you will find event details and promotions that as a student you would be interested. (We get tons of great stuff, take advantage of it!)

Events, promotions, freebies, fun, its all for students and we intend to bring as much of it to you as possible.

Events means finding out about cool new things and giveaways! Prizes and freebies is what everyone loves.

If you go to another University, do not worry! There is probably a MSP at your uni with the same goals as us, and most of the promotions we present here are for students in general.

If you are a Software Developer or Designer, you will be the focus of my presentations. (not all, but a few) I have a strong interest in C#/.Net and XNA, so if you want to write games and want to run them on the Xbox 360, then I will probably do something you will like for an event.

Check back here frequently or subscribe to our RSS feed and get the latest information on offerings to students and events we are running at UTS.