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All the slides from the Microsoft Further Education Briefing 2010

Today was the date for our Further Education Briefing 2010, and around 90 colleges came to our London headquarters to get an update on latest news from us, as well as hearing from other UK colleges on their projects and plans. I’ve put a brief note on...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 07:54 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, presentations, Live @ Edu, download, Virtualisation, Office 2010

Kodu Game Lab – using gaming to interest students in programming

I know it’s half-term, and therefore most teachers aren’t in school. But then, there’s more time to play with new stuff in half-term! So I thought I’d blog it anyway. There aren’t enough students studying computing subjects – this PC Pro article’s chart...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 02:03 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, free stuff, free downloads, download

Windows 7 in Welsh

We’ve just released the Language Interface Pack for Windows 7 in Welsh. It’s free as a result of the collaboration between Microsoft and Welsh Language Board. As the press release makes clear, we pay for the work, and the Welsh Language Board provide...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 09:25 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Windows 7, free downloads, download, Welsh

Download the Office 2010 Beta and find out what makes it good for the classroom

The Office 2010 Beta is available for free download from the Microsoft website , and it’s something that you could install on one of your school computers to see what’s in it, and how it helps your staff and students. Remember how sometimes you felt smug...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 08:00 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Beta, free stuff, free downloads, download, Office 2010

Safer Internet Day – 9th Feb 2010 – Resources to help prepare

European Safer Internet Day is coming up very soon – it’s two weeks today – and a wide range of organisations are encouraging all schools to run an activity to link in to the event. Whether that’s an assembly, a message in the school newsletter or a parents...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 01:54 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free downloads, Home Access Programme, download, free lesson plans, internet safety, online safety

Top 10 reasons Office 2010 is good for schools

I’ve been using Office 2010 for a few months now, and over time I’ve realised that there is a lot of clever stuff hidden inside this new version. When I say “hidden”, I mean that in a positive way. One of the big things with Office 2010 is that there...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 02:16 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free stuff, free downloads, download, Office 2010

Office 2010 Beta Available

Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have all reached the Beta milestone and are now available for download . Remember how sometimes you felt smug when you were running Windows 7 Beta at least 6 months before your colleagues and friends...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 02:52 PM by FE blog

Filed under: Beta, free stuff, free downloads, download, Office 2010

What is it like to be one of the first schools using Windows 7

Windows 7 became available to schools in mid-August 2009, uncomfortably close to the start of the new school year. Although there was every encouragement from Microsoft for schools taking the plunge, it’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that those ICT...

Published Sat, Oct 17 2009 07:08 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Windows 7, download

When was the last time you checked out Microsoft Downloads?

Mark A’Bear is one of our resident ‘amateur’ geeks in the education team. His job isn’t to be a full-time geek, as he’s our Education Partner Manager ( and from my days of working at Microsoft partners, I know he’s pretty good at that ). But he’s also...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2009 01:06 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Students, Security, free downloads, download

Where are all the freebies now the budget's cut

I received this query by email from an international colleague: “I heard that MS UK Education team created a DVD with all free products/links to Microsoft web sites that are potentially beneficial to teachers and students, and that you shared this with...

Published Tue, Aug 25 2009 07:55 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Training, free stuff, training materials, free downloads, download, free lesson plans

Slides from the Windows 7 in Education event in Reading

We had a Windows in Education workshop at our main offices in Reading today, with about 50 IT managers and network managers. We spent the whole day talking about how and why schools, colleges and universities might roll out Windows 7 and Windows Server...

Published Fri, Aug 21 2009 06:36 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Events, presentations, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, download

Free Windows 7 Release Candidate download will end shortly

This isn’t specific to FE, but as it hasn’t got much coverage worldwide, I thought it worth a mention. If you’re thinking of experimenting with Windows 7 in the summer holidays – eg testing some of your old educational software using the XP compatibility...

Published Mon, Jul 6 2009 01:29 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Windows 7, free stuff, free downloads, download, windows

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 networking enhancements for education

I’ve just finished reading the whitepaper about networking enhancements that are included within Windows 7, which are especially powerful when combined with Windows Server 2008 R2. Although I’m not the most technical person in the team, it made sense...

Published Fri, Jul 3 2009 12:45 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Technology, TechNet, Windows 7, download, windows, Network Access Protection

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