August 2008 - EDU Community Blog - Microsoft Education Community

Are you using all of your free software?

Hi Everyone, I was having a few drinks ( Mac and Jack's African Amber beer to be specific...) yesterday with a friend and he told me about a great site to help partners make sure they are taking advantage of all of the various licenses they are entitled...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 11:39 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Licensing, MSPP

Microsoft Surface

A number of you have been asking about Surface in education. While the Surface team is not very big and cannot really support help with development, they are interested in seeing Surface move into the education space. If we as an education community can...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 01:24 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Surface

Live Mesh: More Slots Available, No Wait List

At Web 2.0 in April we announced Live Mesh and opened it up for people to try out our platform experience -- the first evidence of what scenarios our platform is capable of enabling. We said we’d tell you more about Live Mesh and give you access to the...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2008 09:38 AM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Mesh, Live

Engineering Windows 7

While not necessarily an education specific thing, I thought many of you would be interested in learning more about the next generation of Windows. A new Microsoft blog will provide updates on the development of Windows 7, and in-depth previews of the...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 07:56 AM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Windows 7

Microsoft Higher Education

Hello All: Check out this new site for Higher Education customers created by Microsoft's Worldwide Public Sector team. This is a great redesign that is both visually appealing and packed with great information for higher education institutions. You...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 08:18 AM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Higher Ed

Test Drive for Partners?

Many of you may have seen our Test Drive promotion where we created virtual environments exemplifing the power of the Learning Gateway/SharePoint Learning Kit. Information about this site was sent to CIOs of universityies across the world and made up...

Published Tue, Aug 12 2008 05:49 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: demo, Test Drive, marketing

Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance

While preparing for an Executive Briefing Center presentation covering the overall vision of education here at Microsoft, I ran into the program from the Dynamics team that I had not heard of before. The DynAA provides free software for schools/institutions...

Published Tue, Aug 12 2008 05:47 PM by Steve Winfield

Pictures Anyone?

Okay...I have created a new media gallery for you to upload pictures to if you so desire. I would love to see some pictures from events, especially Microsoft events. Please try to upload a picture or two and let me know if there are any errors. Thanks...

Published Tue, Aug 12 2008 05:32 PM by Steve Winfield

Learning Space - Home

This is a new site the Education Products Group just launched for end-customers...check it out!!! Learning Space - Home

Published Thu, Aug 7 2008 05:48 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Students

Say Hello to Nicole!!!

Many of you already know me (or soon will... ), however none of you have had the pleasure of meeting Nicole. Nicole has been the Program Manager trying to keep me in line as we have planned out the ultimate vision of the Microsoft Education Community...

Published Thu, Aug 7 2008 12:00 AM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Program

Microsoft Office Business Applications Central

(Re-posting some old blogs on the new site...) If you don't know about OBAs, then you might be missing a great opportunity. OBAs leverage the power of the Office Business Platform, that is, the clients, servers, services, and tools that comprise the...

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 09:55 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Development, Office

Windows Live Dev

I have been getting a lot of requests for info on our Live platform and how to take advantage of all it offers. Well, here is a link that will give you all sorts of great information on developing on the Live Platform. Windows Live Dev Enjoy, Steve

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 09:51 PM by Steve Winfield

Software + Services for Academia?

So much hullabalu is afoot in the press these days regarding Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 that our own internal news service had to create a new RSS feed category just to optimally classify and keep tabs on the trends, stories...

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 09:33 PM by It's all about edU

Filed under: Web 2.0, Technology, Software + Services

Welcome (...again)

Hello All: Well, we are getting closer and closer to the final realease of v1 of the Microsoft Education Community for partners. This has been a long battle over the last few months, but we are gettign closer. The idea behind what we are doing here is...

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 05:30 PM by Steve Winfield

Filed under: Community, Program

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