MSOZACADEMIC
We have posted often about Microsoft’s It’s Not Piracy offer for students, allowing us to get a completely full, legit copy of Office 2007 Ultimate for $75.00.
Making it an even better deal, when you purchase Office for $75 you go into the draw to win $5,000!
The competition ends June 30th, 2009 so get your copy of Office now to go into the draw!
Luke
Aussie MSP Lead
The University of Western Australia
Following on from the success of last year’s Imagine ’08 event, the UWA MSPs will be running a similar session this semester. We will be covering a host of topics, from Microsoft Internship opportunities (how to apply, how to succeed, and what the internship is like) to creating Mashups with MS Popfly, to examining the new Win7 Release Candidate (with plenty of installation DVDs to save you the download). The event will be held at:
4-5 pm Thursday May 14th
Weatherburn Lecture Theatre, UWA
Reservations are not required, we have plenty of seats for everybody. Be sure to come along, the event only goes for an hour, but could see you on your way to Seattle at the end of 2009, or in Egypt for the Imagine Cup Finals; the possibilities really are endless. We will also have prizes and drinks, for you lovers of free stuff. 
See you there!
Question: Do you know what IDE stands for?
Question: Do you know what languages Visual Studio can use?
Question: Do you like free pizza?
If you answered yes to the last question, then this event is for you!
The Curtin MSP’s will be demoing off Visual Studio – showcasing its ability as an IDE and why it has become industry standard.
So, even if you think you already know everything there is to know about Visual Studio and IDE’s, come along anyway – there will be heaps of giveaways and FREE PIZZA.
For more information, either click the poster (left) or visit http://curtinvs.eventbrite.com/
- Daniel
Curtin MSP
Great summary of a bunch of awesome student programs.
Posted by Anthony Salcito
General Manager, U.S. Education
This week I traveled to Cambridge, Mass. for the U.S. finals of the Imagine Cup, a student competition sponsored by Microsoft that encourages students to apply technology in creative ways to tackle real-world problems. This year’s competition specifically challenged students to use technology to achieve the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which include fighting hunger and poverty, eradicating AIDS, improving education and advancing environmental sustainability.
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, or your still reeling from the fact that Tesltra has killed off its home ISDN plans (don’t laugh – I was still using ISDN until the beginning of this year), you probably would have noticed that Microsoft has been busy at work preparing the next generation of client, server and development software that they are so famous for.
As a quick recap, these are the betas\CTP’s that are making news:
So, the question you probably asking is "Why should I care? Why should I spend my time looking at this stuff when it isn’t even finished yet?". The answer to that is simple…
Consider: most of the people reading this blog are students interested in technology and, most likely, Microsoft technology. Most of the betas above are likely to be ready, deployed and industry standard by mid to late 2010. By which time you should have either graduated or be close to it. This means that you’re going to be looking for a job that involves the final versions of there products (on that note, open Microsoft Students to Business in a new tab and register after reading the rest of this blog). At the point where you are in the interview where your potential employer asks "How much do you know about Program X Version Y" how much better will it appear when you can honestly say that you have not only been using "Program X" but you have been running "Program X Version Y Beta" for the last few years and helped submit a number of bugs which were then fixed. Not only does it show that you have a few years experience with the program, but also the fact that you participated in a beta program indicates that you enjoy learning and experimenting and that you aren’t afraid to do some testing and go the extra mile.
Other than that, there is nothing more enjoyable then playing with (and breaking) pre-release software…
- Daniel
Curtin MSP
