Imagine cup finals

The imagine cup finals will be held on the 27th May (this Wednesday) and it will be held at the Microsoft Sydney office in North Ryde. For more details go to Link.

The details:

• Date: 27 May 2009
• Time: 6:00pm start, finishing approximately 9:00pm
• Where: Microsoft Australia office
              1 Epping Road
              North Ryde, NSW 2113
• Cost: Free to attend
• email to register: Australian Imagine Cup

Its not piracy competition

The its not piracy website is running a competition, which enters anyone who buy office ultimate for $75, enters a draw to win $5000. This is being run until June 30th. Addition they are also selling windows vista for $80 for those of you who are interested.

Just a reminder this offer is open to students, so you will need your unipass of STA student card if you are from UNSW .

Windows 7 RC1 Disks

As many of you probably know Win7 RC has been released on the internet for the general public to download, you can download it here. The problem with the download is that it is over 4GB, and that will eat a big chunk of anyone's download limit. I am therefore working on getting some disk that I will distribute to anyone who wants a copy.

Anyone who is interested in a disk leave a comment, additionally I  will make another post when I have the disks.

Dream-Build-Play Challenge

Microsoft’s Dream-Build-Play challenge of 2009 has just started, and it is running from April 6 – August 6, so if you are interested in getting involved register here.

The dream-build-play challenge is an annual competition that is run by Microsoft that encourages anyone over that age of 16 to build their dream computer game. The prizes for this competition are pretty good, and include a share of $75,000 and more importantly a possible Xbox live publishing contract – if your game can cut it.

The basics of the competition are, use XNA and build the game for the Xbox. Additionally everyone that enters will get a free copy of a 12 month XNA creators club trial membership.

An introduction to cloud computing with Microsoft technologies

As we all know there have been a considerable amount of interest and talk about cloud computing solution and over the past couple of years the large computing companies have started offering their solutions. Microsoft has also thrown its hat into the preverbal ring offering .Net framework.

Rob Bagby is writing a series on how to start using the Azure framework – Link

The video podcast by Rob of his blog entry can be found here