• Kids Improve Reading and STEM Skills by Writing Their Own Games with Kodu

    Kodu was announced last year at the CES 2009 Conference where Robbie Bach and Sparrow, a middle school student, demonstrated a game she developed in Kodu. Today, Microsoft is expanding Kodu beyond the XBOX and offering the programming language for the PC platform.

    (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks)
    Students can use Kodu on their classroom, lab, or laptop [...]

  • Imagine.

    This is one of the few verbs that can transform the character of an individual, the dream of a nation, and create opportunities across continents.  Each year, Microsoft creates a global venue for students to do just that at the Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition.
    Students compete across a broad range of disciplines, [...]

  • A Microsoft PDC Surprise for Open Source Aficionados

    What would it take for Microsoft to host Moodle CMS on Windows Azure? Interestingly enough, not much.

  • Microsoft Goes to The Mile High City to Bring Education Closer to the Cloud

    More schools and universities are choosing Microsoft Online Services to balance the budget and exceed faculty and staff expectations.

  • Microsoft Windows 24/7

    There were 3.75 millions babies born in the US the year Microsoft launched Windows 1.0. There was no public or consumer Internet at the time. Now, 24 years later, these Millennials get the next-generation of operating system of Windows 7. Let’s take a brief look at the history of Windows.