Microsoft Faculty Connection

Microsoft Surface in education

As many of you are aware, the new Microsoft Surface was unveiled at CES 2011. Microsoft Surface 2.0...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/27/2011

Has your institution considered becoming a Microsoft IT Academy? IT Academy offers Over 300 courses and over £40,000 of Value to Education

About the Microsoft IT Academy: Microsoft responds to IT Education, Training, and Employment...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/27/2011

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio Getting Started, Hobbyist? Academic? Researcher?

The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows based environment for...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/27/2011

Embedded Systems- Using Windows 7 Embedded

Microsoft is committed to higher learning, and Windows Embedded delivers one of the best sets of...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/27/2011

Dare to be Digital–Microsoft Windows Phone and Kinect Teams

What Dare is... Dare to be Digital is a video games development competition for extremely talented...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/24/2011

New Pricing Structure for Windows Azure from 1st July 2011–FREE inbound data transfers

      We are pleased to announce a change in pricing for the Windows Azure...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/23/2011

UK institutions using Live@edu SkyDrive has been upgraded

Today Microsoft launched a update to its amazing SkyDrive services, the updates include speed...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/21/2011

Kinect for Windows SDK event

We had a fantastic morning and lunch with over 80 Academics, researchers and students at a special...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/21/2011

Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus Business breakfast network event

On Friday June 17th Miles Deegan and myself of Microsoft presented at the Daresbury SCI Business...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/19/2011

Universities now becoming Microsoft BizSpark Network Partners

What is BizSpark? BizSpark is an innovative new program that unites start-up’s with...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/17/2011

The Academic Search beta is a free search engine, developed by Microsoft Research, that helps users...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

Microsoft Biology Foundation 2.0 Beta 1 Release and Coding Contest

  The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) team is looking for the best bioinformatics and...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

Special Event UK Academia RE: the Kinect Windows SDK beta

The Microsoft academic team are delighted to confirm the focus of our “Special Applied...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

Kinect for Windows SDK – It’s Here!

Anticipation for the Kinect or Windows software development kit beta has been high from the UK...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

Special Live Event on Channel 9 16/06/2011

UK Academic community, This evening Microsoft is announcing something very special. which I know a...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

The Power of HTML5

Disney's New Tron: Legacy Site Comes to Life Using IE9 with HTML5 After my recent visits to numerous...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/16/2011

High Performance Computing Training Resources for academia

For those interested in High Performance Computing using Windows HPC Server 2008R2 and Windows Azure...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/15/2011

UK Office Trainers join round table discussion with Microsoft Learning

On Monday 13th June 2011, I attended a number of meetings at the University of York, UK, the...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/15/2011

Do you want your University to become a Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner

Microsoft BizSpark: Helping startups succeed with all the right resources Microsoft®...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/14/2011

Microsoft Faculty Connection–Registration for Faculty only curricula

To download software from the Faculty Connection site or to access faculty only material in the...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/14/2011

The development of Windows Phone applications in academia

“Phone Apps” are fast becoming a huge growth market and I know many UK institutions are looking to...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/14/2011

What Microsoft application can be virtualised and supported?

We get lots of questions over what applications can be virtualised and supported by Microsoft… The...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/06/2011

Thinking Digital 2011 and Microsoft Vision of the Future

Last week I spent a few days in Newcastle at the awesome Thinking Digital Conference. Thinking...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

University of Southampton High Performance Computing (HPC) Case Study

Have you thought about a HPC resource built on Windows Technology? For the past 30 years, the...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

Microsoft helping develop students skills and product awareness at Birmingham City University

  Birmingham City University has embedded Microsoft IT Academy (ITA) and MSDNAA resources into...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

What is Microsoft Azure

To help explain Microsoft Azure offering please view the following short overview video below For...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

Microsoft Tools and Resources for Academics and Researchers

Data collection and analysis, as well as information authoring, publishing, and preservation, are...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

Microsoft Biology Initiative - new technology and tools to the area of bioinformatics and biology

(MBI) Microsoft Biology Initiative is an effort in Microsoft Research to bring new technology and...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/03/2011

Windows 8

Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft presented at  the ‘All Things...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/02/2011

Microsoft Supporting Britain Works

Giving people the opportunity to acquire workplace skills and experiences, Get the essential...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 06/01/2011

Windows Azure - Updated Platform Pricing Calculator

  Microsoft has recently released a new version of it Azure online calculator. The Windows...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/24/2011

Windows 7.1 Mango Announcement

Today, along with the release of the new Windows Phone Developer Tools for Mango, we are proud to...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/24/2011

On premise HPC Cluster with the power of the cloud

Did you know that the minimum requirement for Windows Azure Burst configuration is one on-premise...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2011

Cloud Services SDK for Windows Phone 7 Beta

Project Hawaii Releases Cloud Services SDK for Windows Phone 7 Beta The MRC Engineering team, in...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2011

Interested in Microsoft Kinect Devices and the opportunity of the Kinect SDK Beta

Kinect for Windows SDK Beta Coming later this spring, the Kinect for Windows SDK is a programming...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2011

Interested in Functional programming Try F# in a web browser

Try F# Browser The Microsoft Research Connections (MRC) Computer Science team have announced the...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/11/2011

Microsoft announces Windows Azure Toolkits for Mobile Devices including iPhone and Android

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices, consisting of assets for Windows...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/09/2011

Students can win prizes and awareness through Windows Phone 7 app development

I am really excited how students are getting on with the development of application for Windows...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/09/2011

Tech.Days 2011

Microsoft Tech.Days Events Schedule - Get the latest product information awareness and training for...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2011

Is project based team work becoming a logistical nightmare?

I have had a number of interesting  discussions and questions this week regarding the...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2011

Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) programme

If you have students, whom are passionate about technology, ready to share their knowledge and who...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2011

What is DreamSpark?

DreamSpark is Microsoft’s way of giving free software to students. Students can simply log on and...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/05/2011

Cloud Futures: Advancing Research and Education with Cloud Computing Redmond, WA | June 2-3, 2011

The Workshop agenda is finalized and listed below for your information.  I hope you can attend...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/03/2011

Microsoft API Mapping Tool–Porting iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft is announcing the availability of a new “API mapping tool” to help iPhone developers port...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 05/02/2011

FREE Microsoft Certification for Students via https://www.dreamspark.com ends 30th June 2011

Students - Time is running out! To ensure you  have enough time to prepare for your academic...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/28/2011

Microsoft Research the power of Parallel Programming, Dyrad and Windows Azure

Microsoft Research are doing some interesting things with parallel programming and service called...

Author: Lee Stott Date: 04/28/2011

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