Students

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…

Microsoft is teaming up with a handful of universities to study if and how computer games can be useful in education for teaching students math, science, and technology. The research project has Microsoft working with NYU as well as City University of New York, Columbia University, Dartmouth…

To raise awareness for Microsoft's Live@edu, Microsoft is holding a contest among student software developers to see who can design the best application for Windows Live. You can check out some sample apps on the dev.live.com/mashups pages, which include some already created mashups like 3D Geology…

Its a good day to be a student.  Well, maybe its always a good day to be a student, but today Microsoft is making it a free day too.Free you say? Free i say.  And its not just chump change either.  On the contrary.. how do you feel about Visual Studio 2008? How about a copy…

We had a great night over in Nottingham at the Bluu bar as part of the Nottingham's GameCity07 festival of gaming. George, Nick and the gang from Rare had done a top job finding the venue and equipping it with over 12 - networked - Xbox 360/Elites for a night of competition gaming - …