Anith Gopal

In December, my local BBC News station showed an interview with a head teacher, who’d had to crawl across a sloping playground, covered in black ice, to send out a text to let parents know the school was closed. Which surprised me because he was using one of the systems that allows you to send out the message from a website

Oxford Computer Group (OCG to their friends) are running a free seminar on “Business Ready Security for Education, including Identity & Access Management”, at our campus in Reading on Thursday 6th May 2010. OCG are a long-standing Microsoft partner who do a lot of work with universities on managing digital identity across a campus network connected to web services.

REGISTER TODAY!     Click the link above, visit  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032447063&Culture=en-US OR call 1-877-673-8368 and reference event ID 1032447063   Event Date:  May 12 2010   Registration:  8:30am   Event Time:  9:00am – 4:00pm    Event Location: Microsoft Office 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor Waltham, MA 02451 (781) 487-6400   About the Event We invite you to join us for a day of developer-oriented sessions, featuring Visual Studio 2010. The event begins with a presentation on Visual Studio 2010 – new features, add-ons and SKU plan changes.

[Cross-Posted from James Chittenden’s Blog ] I really wanted to let everyone know about this phenomenal resource that was launched during MIX10 this year….called .toolbox . So what is it and why should you care

Microsoft Australia is again participating in Earth Hour , which is now one of the world’s biggest mass participation events. On Saturday March 27 th from 8.30pm – 9.30pm we are turning off our lights in our Australian offices.  In addition to corporate involvement, we have also encouraged our staff to participate at home.