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Alice Lee is an intern at Microsoft and visited with the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Seattle as they worked on Windows Phone projects. She brings us this report. Developing a full-fledged Windows Phone app in one week – that's pretty ambitious, right?Last week, at the Academy of…

This year at the PDC we took advantage of the large amount of students creating apps for the new Windows Phone 7. In this clip I sat down with 5 students from across the globe to learn about how they spent their time at the PDC and what apps that had each created. Good stuff!

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background, definitions of Infrastructure as…

Wow, I just came across a handy link you’ll want to share with any college students (or parents of college students) you know: Windows 7 is only $29.99 for those enrolled in a U.S.-based educational institution. To qualify, the student must be taking at least 0.5 course credits and have either an…

In March, Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award, a contest for student developers looking to build a top-of-the-line mobile application for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, using either Silverlight or the XNA framework. Since the contest’s launch, 131 teams submitted…

The Bing Team has posted all the photos from the student-only Earth Day Photo Contest where the winning entry gets featured on the Bing.com homepage. After receiving 17,000 photos (whew!), they’ve narrowed the group down to 12 finalists. The photo subjects include frogs, oceans, landscapes, trees…

Bing is kicking off another photo contest where the winner gets to decorate the Bing.com homepage with their winning image. This time around, though, the contest is limited to students only. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the winning photo will grace the homepage on April 22nd…

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit recently announced a new special for students with Mac computers looking to purchase a copy of Microsoft Office software. As of now, U.S. college and graduate students can save more than 70% off the retail price for the Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition. This more…

Blackboard Inc., the educational technology company whose software system is used across campuses worldwide, recently announced a partnership with Microsoft. The purpose of the alliance is to deliver new integrations into the Bing toolbar which will alert students to updated course material when it…

It's the most wonderful time of the year! That's right! Football Season is here! And what better way to celebrate than by watching your Sunday night games with Silverlight? Paul and I discussed this and some other noteworthy events such as... NFL & Silverlight- YAY! Microsoft is cool Old…