UNSW Vista Launch

Its been a while since i updated this blog but there are several events round the corner. The main one that we have in planning is the windows Vista launch at the university its been planned in the next few weeks (after the semester break).

Here we will introduce the features of vista and we will have several presenters. We are going to showcase the features that make vista firstly and improvement of windows XP. Then what makes it unique from everything else that is out there.

If anyone has any questions about vista or anything else that Microsoft is doing on campus feel free to contact me.

Happy Easter

-Alex

Semester 1 plan

I have the following planned for semester 1 for events at the uni!

1. Official Imagine cup launch - there will be some surprise announcements at the official launch so stay tuned
   
2. MSDNAA show case - we will be demonstrating the new MS products that have been put onto the market just recently. Hopefully some hands on stuff and maybe even running one or two labs
3. MSDNAA install fest, im not too sure if this is really that required at CSE, but possibly run this in conjunction with the other MSP that is joined to the commerce faculty.

Vista and Office 2007 Launched

Yesterday saw the release of Vista and office 2007, at a midnight launch in Harvey Normans around Australia. This was marketed by Greg Harvey selling the first copy of Vista and a couple of them signed by Bill Gates. While this in itself would be exciting most institutions have had access to it for 2 months and those of us who risked the beta builds or even alpha builds may have been using for more than a year.

So what got me interested in the launch was the look of the casing that the product is sold in, and unfortunately I was rather disappointed! I expected a shiny metal case but only saw plastic, but at least it was not cardboard like so much other software is sold in.

XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Released

The game development studio for X-box 360 was released recently. This is one of the more anticipated SDKs ( for me at least) that was promised to come out at the end of year. The studio works with C# and visual studio express, so its free to download.

If any of you are interested in playing around with it look at the links listed below. Also if there is a bit of interest in having someone demo it, I can organise early next year a speaker either during or before uni starts. (interest based)


Links:

XNA
Visual Studio Express

Imagine Cup 2007

This morning Brad from CSE sent out an email in regards to the imagine cup and possible help if anyone needs it in regards to university students and obtaining a memtor. I want to also add that if you have any questions that you would like a response from MS send them to me and ill get you an answer or if its more complicated in contact with someone that might be able to help.