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• Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Conference DVD sets to give away

  Good morning, I thought I’d start the week with a give-away of the ten Tech-Ed Conference DVD sets sitting on my desk. So, if you live in the UK and would like me to pop one in the post to you, email me your address details and the first ten to reply will get the goodies. Have a good week. Allison Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 3:29 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Training, Technology, competitions, Silverlight, Embedded, Software, Beta, Security, Microsoft

• remix UK – a 48 hour conversation

  Hi Everyone If you have been wondering 'where next for the web?' this event might just be for you and there is an early bird saving for the first three hundred people to book. Click here to reserve a place. And if you have any ideas for a topic you would like to see presented at remix UK and have a good idea of just who you’d like to present it, there is a chance you can get it added to the mash up. Best for the weekend, Allison Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 8:51 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, XNA, Technology, Web, Robotics, Silverlight, Embedded, Software, Microsoft, Software design

• Mix it up!

  Hi! I'm Alfred Biehler, working with Microsoft UK alongside Claire in Microsoft's Developer platform group. My focus is on all our UK developers, and I've been given the opportunity to attend the MIX conference at Las Vegas. My expectations of the event was high, and I'm not disappointed! For starters: You can join in this amazing event by going to http://www.visitmix.com. You can see the sessions on http://sessions.visitmix.com, and/or you can even attend a UK re-run later this year in the UK... more details to come. Let me briefly share with you the biggest wow moments for me during the first keynote, that just finished: IE 8 beta is available for download now. (This beta is intended for developers). Amongst the new capabilities shown in IE8, was the ability for web apps to detect and act on losing a network connection, and a back button that really goes back - even on AJAX pages! SQL Server as a service has been announced. This is huge! I've been talking about this since the end of 1999, and it's fantastic to see this now becoming available. This would allow developers to build applications that draw data from "the cloud", without the need to manage and run the database yourself. Silverlight 2 beta 1 has been announced, with awesome demos, including how we'll experience the Olympics in a few weeks, how HardRock Cafe has a memorabilia site utilizing DeepZoom (seeing a 2bn pixel photo, zooming into any area very quickly), Aston Martin's virtual showroom experience and more. I really enjoyed seeing also some of Microsoft's partners (that also competes with us) on stage, e.g. AOL email using Silverlight, and DoubleClick (Google) for building Silverlight Adverts. And lastly - we saw demos of how Silverlight apps just worked on Nokia phones after the agreement that has been reached yesterday with Nokia to support Silverlight on their phones. One statistic that blew me away, was that we're getting about 1.5 million downloads and installs of Silverlight per day. If you do have a moment - go and have a look at the sessions @ Mix online! Alfred Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:29 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Technology, Web, .NET, Silverlight, Beta, Microsoft, Software design

• Joining instructions for the Bletchley Park SIlverlight Academic Day

  Last week we announced that we are accepting registrations for our Silverlight Academic Day at Bletchley Park on March 12th. This event is aimed at both designers and developers and we are pleased to say that we are almost sold out of developer seats. If you have already pre-registered by emailing me then we have reserved your seat but you now need to obtain your joining instructions by calling: 0870 166 6630 If you would like to reserve one of the remaining seats then please also call the number. Any questions, please let me know Claire Share this: Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:54 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Silverlight, Microsoft

• Inspiration Tour Update

  With 17 dates behind them and another 37 yet to come, Ed and Ben are having a great impact on the students that they present to as part of the Inspiration Tour. We love to get feedback, both good and bad but our favourite so far is: The talk you gave today was absolutely awesome, as were the demos. Loved every minute of it from the front row. You even had me crying when you were talking about the opportunities - everything I dreamed about. Thanks to both of you. All dates are now booked but if your university has missed out then please get in touch and we will see if we can fit you into an additional slot.   Claire Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:12 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, XNA, Careers, Technology, Web, Academics, Silverlight, Embedded, Student, Software