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Tue, Nov 17 2009 8:01

Zune going global – Microsoft shows some love to Australia!!

What can i say – i’ve been harping on about this “outage” ever since I got my hands on my first Zune! And now Microsoft is showing some Love for us down under – because the Zune is coming to Australia. In total, 18 countries will see the Zune hit the...
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Tue, Nov 3 2009 8:38

Visual Studio 2010 got a new logo – you like?

Not so long ago we saw a new logo revealed for the Microsoft .Net framework – the “Wave” logo was widely received as being a huge improvement and many loved it. Just around the corner comes a new version of Visual Studio – 2010 which promises to be ...
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Tue, Sep 1 2009 10:23

Download IE8 and MSFT will donate $1.15 to Feeding America (charity)

It doesn’t matter what flavour you prefer when you browse the big interweb today, you can still contribute to helping out. Microsoft is donating $1.15 for each download of IE8 from here – if you’re upgrading from IE6 they’ll double...
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Wed, Feb 18 2009 5:03

Thrive - Microsoft launches career coach

Microsoft has just launched a new site for handling your career - besides the content i'd like to add as a sidenote that it's great to see Silverlight used in public web sites launched by MSFT. Including fact sheets and certification information...
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Tue, Feb 10 2009 6:38

Microsoft TechDays 2009 wants YOU!!

you don't want to miss this!!! It's obvious, virtual events are becoming more and more popular - both because of the cost factor (definitely costs less) but also because of the availability of the events worldwide! this means of course that regardless...
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Wed, Jan 21 2009 6:02

Australia gets new lead for the platform and developer evangelism group in Australia

I've switched back to FeedDemon as my preferred RSS reader as i kept missing "important" announcements from some of my most favorite bloggers. Anyways, a little late (but better late than never), it's been announced that the DPE team...
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Wed, Jan 7 2009 15:09

Microsoft Certification Offers – Australia only

Microsoft has just launched their Microsoft Certification Hero Campaign which enables MVPs to forward some nice benefits for those wishing to take any MCTS, MCITP or MCPD exams before May 31st, 2009. Here’s a link to the specific certifications: www.microsoft...
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Mon, Dec 29 2008 10:32

Visual Studio Developer Promotions!!

Developers, Developers, Developers!! Joerg Lindner sent me this link and i figured i’d share it with the rest of you! Microsoft just released their Visual Studio 2008 Developer Promotions website, which has some seriously good deals if you’re considering...
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Mon, Dec 8 2008 5:39

David Lemphers officially joins the Windows Azure team

I was actually starting to wonder when Dave would make the transition over to the Azure team - he seemed very passionate about the Cloud and all it could offer. So lo and behold, the announcement came out (from the horses mouth no less!!! yes this is...
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Mon, Aug 18 2008 9:15

Australia gets shiny new Developer Tools Product Manager – Joerg Lindner, welcome!

Australia has “lost” a whole bunch of DPE members over the last 1-2 years and it was looking more and more like everybody was abandoning us. But, as it stands, that’s not the case. Australia just got it’s very own Product Manager for Developer Tools ...
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Mon, Aug 11 2008 8:09

Australia lost two more MS guys to Redmond…

Sometimes good things come out of “bad” events..Here’s two, which saddened me a lot (i should have blogged it earlier, but i was still choked up about it…sniff sniff). David Lemphers and Michael Kleef left Australia’s MS offices to move to MS HQ in Redmond...
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Fri, May 16 2008 7:59

Nigel Watson - compassionate geek

I was surfing around this early morning as my virtual image was taking yonks to boot up and i came across this post over at Nigel Watson's Blog . What I liked about this post is that it shows an almost uncommon compassionate behavior. Nigel was out...
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Wed, May 14 2008 11:00

Miss Bonita joins MCS - way to go girl!

A colleague of mine, Anita "Bonita" R. is about to embark to the other side of the country. She's joining Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant with primary focus on SharePoint. Bonita is a very well rounded SharePoint consultant...
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Tue, Feb 26 2008 6:17

[MS] Scott Barnes - New Product Manager for Rich Client Platform team

Here's the news that Scott was referring to re: his career taking a turn . If anybody could give this team a boost then it's Scott. He's been advocating the RIA solutions for a while now and having him on the team that produces Silverlight...
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Mon, Feb 25 2008 5:48

[MS]Scott Barnes : My career is about to take a turn..

If you work with the interweb and the latest technologies you have better subscribe to Scott Barnes' blog. Something is going to be revealed there pretty soon, that'll put not only australia on the interweb map but also have a worldwide impact...
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Sat, Feb 23 2008 9:38

Heroes Happen attendance pack to contain FULL version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

Wow - before Michael clarified this one, i was actually under the impression that this would be a "trial" or "NFR" license and not a full blown, production environment version of Windows Server 2008. Am I glad that i'm going now...
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Thu, Oct 4 2007 7:57

Microsoft is releasing the .Net framework source code

It's a milestone in development - finally, the source code for the .Net framework is being released. At 9am local Redmond time, Scott Guthrie made the announcement via his blog. Link to Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries -...
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Sun, Sep 30 2007 21:50

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

I don't know how often i've had to delay playing with a new piece of released technology, just because I was in the middle of another set of tests and simply didn't have the time to create my own virtual server environment again to accommodate...
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Sun, Jul 29 2007 21:51

Best way to get Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 - Microsoft Secure Content Downloader 2007 CTP

I thought i'd bring this to peoples attention after having had some seriously slow speeds when downloading Betas from MSFT. Even via the MSDN subscriptions it can sometimes be extremely slow..and then if it fails you have to locate the download again...
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Thu, Jul 12 2007 23:03

Ozzie Rules Blogging : Release Candidate of Windows Presentation Foundation labs now available!!

Charles "Chuck" Stirling has just released a nice 3 part series of labs for WPF. After having a good read through them, i'm surprised in how much effort he must have put into these "manuals". If you haven't already had a read...
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