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• Student Technology Day - Future User Experience Technologies

  Hello All, Filmed at the Royal Festival on 1st October, please find below the session by Paolo Barone on Microsoft Surface: If for any reason you cannot view this clip, please do let me know. Best wishes,   Allison Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:02 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Training, Technology, Academics, Student, Software design

• ITA Student Pass

  Hello, I’d like to tell you a little about the ITA Student Pass which gives students access to a large number of e-learning courses free of charge. The e-learning materials will provide your students with access to training on real-world technology and industry-recognised certification. You might even envisage an opportunity to incorporate some of the e-learning into the curriculum for new courses or simply to replace existing materials. If you would like your students to have access to Microsoft e-learning materials I can supply, upon request, a series of unique codes for you to distribute to them. To see a demonstration of what e-learning has to offer please click demo. For the codes themselves, please email i-allmc@micrsoft.com with a subject header of ITA Student Pass. With Best wishes, Allison Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Technology, Teaching, Student, Microsoft, Software design

• MSDN: What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1?

  Hello, I want to invite you along to a free half day event taking place in Exeter on 23rd October 2008 and which was created with developers in mind. Technical experts from the UK MSDN team will deliver a range of demos and provide insight into the latest enhancements across many areas of the .Net Framework. This is your opportunity to broaden your knowledge base and stay ahead of these latest developments. If you think this is something you’d like to attend, you can find out more or register by clicking here. In the meantime, have a lovely weekend.   Allison Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 10:32 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Training, Technology, Software, Software design

• 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