Microsoft Student Partners

Applications have opened again for Microsoft Internships for the engineering roles SDE and SDET.

As posted often on WA MSP, Microsoft Internships are an awesome way to get a headstart in your career, while learning a bunch and having heaps of fun.

A Real World Experience like No Other.  As an intern at Microsoft, you’ll have real responsibility, real work, and real opportunities to jumpstart your career. (You’ll get paid, too!) It’s an experience you’ll never find in a classroom. You’ll be given manageable assignments that you can complete while you’re here, and your efforts will likely take shape in Microsoft products—or be used by Microsoft teams—long after you return to school. And imagine millions of customers, not to mention your classmates, seeing your work! Some interns even parlay their experience into a job offer.

An Opportunity to Shine. Our interns make a real difference. Not by filing paperwork or running errands, but by developing real products. Here, you’ll run your own projects and put your skills to work. This is why our internship program is one of the most successful in the industry. You’ll learn more in 12 weeks than you would in a whole school year. It’s the kind of work that gets noticed by millions of people all over the world. Kind of redefines the whole concept of internships, don’t you think?

More information and full details can be downloaded at AU Internship 2009

If interested, please send your resume by July 22 to: ausrec@microsoft.com

For a heads up on the Internship process you may also like to read my earlier post at http://www.wamsp.com.au/2008/09/how-to-get-a-microsoft-winter-internship-for-australian-students/

The OfficeLabs team have released an add-on for OneNote which allows you to browse and organise your content using a canvas, rather than just plain tabs.

If you haven’t checked it out already, OneNote is an awesome Microsoft Office program that allows you to take notes quickly and efficiently without having to worry about the constraints of a word processor.

It’s include in the It’s Not Piracy version of Office Ultimate.

Check out Canvas for OneNote and get even more value from OneNote.

Luke
Aussie MSP Lead
The University of Western Australia

DreamSpark is now available to any university student who has an edu.au E-mail address.

DreamSpark is a program that gives university students access to 100% free software, including Window Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 along with others.

DreamSpark together with the It’s Not Cheating program empowers students to reach their potential with awesome free tools.

Even better, very soon all TAFE students will also have access to DreamSpark. Watch this space!

Luke
Australian MSP Lead
UWA

I blogged recently about an awesome initiative Microsoft has to bring Outlook / Exchange features to students.

Microsoft has now announced some great new features for this service, and is renaming it Outlook Live.

Some major new features are:

• Multiple browser support (IE, Firefox, Safari)
• Instant Messaging within Outlook Live
• Threaded conversations in Conversation View

All the Microsoft Student Partners in Australia are currently on Outlook Live so you should be hearing a lot more about it in the near future.

Checkout the official press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-1220MLiveEduPR.mspx

Checkout awesome video demo at http://edge.technet.com/Media/Introducing-Outlook-Live/

Luke
WA MSP

Some of the Aussie Interns have made a video about their internship.

Aussie Interns @ Microsoft 2009 from Edmund Tse on Vimeo.

It had to happen sooner or later. The Microsoft Student Partners Program Worldwide now has an official blog on MSDN Blogs.

Head over to http://blogs.msdn.com/mspprogram/ to bookmark and subscribe to the RSS feed.

Luke
UWA MSP

As we are gearing up for the new academic year here in Australia, I would like to remind everyone that the It’s Not Cheating Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for $75.00 deal is still on.

Here’s how it works:

If you are a university or TAFE student, or staff member, you can use your institution E-mail address to get Microsoft Office 2007 completely legal for $75.00 outright or as a $25/year subscription.

You purchase online, and can download the software instantly or have it sent to you by mail.

Either way, you are up and running quickly, easily and cost effectively, ready to go for the new year.

Click on the banner to get your copy now!

Luke
UWA MSP

There have been some great videos from Student Technology Day posted on Channel8 recently.

I really encourage you to check them out.

Luke
UWA MSP

In case you missed it, recently I was accepted into a Microsoft Internship for 3 months.

We left Perth, Australia on the 23rd of Nov, travelled for around 30 hours and finally got to our apartment in Redmond late on still, the 23rd!

I started New Employee Orientation (NEO) the next morning at 8am which ran day 1 and till noon day 2 when we received our ID cards.

I got one of the Microsoft Prius Shuttles over to my building and met my Manager and Peer Mentor.

So now I’ve just finished my first day on the job here at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA and it was great.

I am in the Server and Tools business division, working on developer tools for Visual Studio Team System.

After having some good talks with my mentor and manager I was introduced to the rest of the people in my team. I set up my machine and added it to the domain. Attended a SCRUM meeting which was primarily focused on quality control of our product. Discussed and decided on the project I will be working on during my internship and wrote up a small “about me” document for the rest of the team.

And true to the Microsoft free drink thing, I went ahead and drank 3 chocolate milks for the afternoon

So first impressions? The team is awesome, and my manager and mentor are really fun and relaxed who definitely seem to know their stuff. My project looks pretty difficult, but really interesting.

I’ve got high expectations for the rest of the internship.

If you have any questions about Microsoft Internships for Australian students, please leave a comment.

Luke

UWA MSP

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Feb. 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today will unveil a software giveaway that will ultimately provide millions of college and high school students around the world with access to the latest Microsoft developer and designer tools at no charge to unlock their creative potential and set them on the path to academic and career success.

The Microsoft DreamSpark student program (http://channel8.msdn.com) makes available, at no charge, a broad range of development and design software for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. Broad global coverage, as well as an expansion of the program to high school students around the world, potentially reaching up to 1 billion students worldwide, will continue throughout the next year. Gates will share details with students and faculty at Stanford University as part of a U.S. and Canada college tour that kicks off today.

“We want to do everything we can to equip a new generation of technology leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to harness the magic of software to improve lives, solve problems and catalyze economic growth,” Gates said. “Microsoft DreamSpark provides professional-level tools that we hope will inspire students to explore the power of software and encourage them to forge the next wave of software-driven breakthroughs.”

Click here for the entire article.

Unfortunately Australian students won’t have access until around the middle of this year, your local MSP will be able to tell you more closer to the release date. Until then, there have been reports that students with an International Student ID can register and start benefiting from the free software right away.