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Webcast: Build Awesome Windows 8 Apps using Azure Cloud Services

Posted 1 month ago

by Microsoft Tech Student

You may have heard about cloud-computing and all the cool ways you can use it to boost your projects, but did you know it could also land you more job opportunities as a mobile app developer? Take Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform Windows Azure for example. A rising number of businesses and companies out there are looking to hire developers who have experience creating apps on the cloud platform. In fact, according to Elance.com, job listings looking for Windows 8 and Windows Azure developers have more than doubled since January 2012 and over 250 listings are added every month. There has...
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Microsoft Announces the Imagine Cup 2013 U.S. Finalists!

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by Microsoft Tech Student

REDMOND, Wash. – April 16, 2013 - Microsoft today announced the 10 teams who are advancing to the 11 th annual U.S. Imagine Cup Finals Demo Day. Demo Day will take place on May 13 in Silicon Valley and will be streamed live on the U.S. Imagine Cup Facebook page. The list of finalists include: Lost Spectrum, University of Houston/ University of Texas Chroma Tales: The team developed a fast-paced 2D action game on Windows Phone 8 where each level lasts approximately five seconds. Each player’s mission is to restore color to the world. Kinect PT, University of Virginia Vitrunetics...
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Windows 8 Wednesday: Giving Students a Voice with Windows 8

Posted 1 month ago

by Anthony Salcito
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Today marks the first in a series of Windows 8 Wednesday posts, weekly updates focused on how Windows 8 is making a difference in education – for both educators and students. I hope you will check back often and follow me on this journey. Just...
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Partner Offering: Live@edu Upgrade Training

Posted 1 month ago

by Education in the Cloud

Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are running a series of one day training events that cover how to complete your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. In their own words: “This course provides an introduction to the process...
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Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2013 U.S. Finalists

Posted 1 month ago

by Microsoft Tech Student

REDMOND, Wash. – April 16, 2013 - Microsoft today announced the 13 teams who are advancing to the 11 th annual Imagine Cup U.S. Finals , the world’s premier student technology competition, honoring student technology innovations that address the world’s toughest problems. The U.S. Finals will take place on May 13 in Silicon Valley and will be streamed live on the U.S. Imagine Cup Facebook Page The list of finalists include: Lost Spectrum, University of Houston/ University of Texas Chroma Tales: The team developed a fast-paced 2D action game on Windows Phone 8 where each...
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Alumni Address Book Policy in Office 365 Education

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by Education in the Cloud

We recently took a look at one of the ways you can address the question of supporting alumni users in Office 365 Education, and I mentioned that you would need to look to the new Office 365 Education in order to provide custom address book policies in...
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A quick and easy way to link Moodle to SharePoint with Collabco MyDay

Posted 1 month ago

by Education in the Cloud

Collabco is a specialist Microsoft Partner focused on SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync, UAG, Mobility and deliver the following services: Technology Consultancy, IT Strategy Consultancy, Development, Project implementation, Support and Training. They...
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Calling All Innovative Educators

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by Anthony Salcito
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Here at Microsoft, we strive to offer great training and experiences for teachers across the world through our Partners in Learning program, like our Partners in Learning Network and the power it brings for teachers across the globe to collaborate. ...
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Alumni in Office 365 Education

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by Education in the Cloud

Increasingly, institutions look for ways to keep in touch with their students after they graduate. This can be for many reasons, and it’s not unusual for a requirement of any email solution to be that it should support the creation of accounts for alumni...
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Bridging the gap to 1:1 computing – from Microsoft to Mozambique

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by Microsoft Education Team
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From time to time we at Microsoft Education invite our partner community to guest blog on Microsoft in Education, David Yunger, CEO at Greenbridge Computing, Inc is here highlighting the benefits of Windows Multipoint Server and how it's positively impacting...

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