Annie Wang, the Co-Founder, CTO and Creative Director of Her Campus spent the past two days in Vegas asking all the questions students need to know about technology. She went all over the trade show, up and down the Microsoft booth and lived with 14 other student trend focused bloggers from around Europe...

Celebrity skateboarder, entrepreneur and all around nice guy Rob Dyrdek will be at the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale , Arizona this Thursday from 5pm-6pm local time. You’ll be given the chance to get your photo taken with Dyrdek , have him sign an item and then be eligible to lots of cool stuff. I spent...

Giving is always better than receiving, and today I’m happy to announce the extension of our student discount on Windows 7 Professional to 11 additional countries – Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, New Zealand and Taiwan (see availability dates and links to...

Garris Yeung is a regional manager of the Microsoft UCrew and a former UCrew representative at UC Riverside. Garris Yeung is an employee in Microsoft’s UCrew program, and receives Microsoft software, hardware, and financial compensation as part of his participation in the program. Christmas time is absolutely...

I used to volunteer in the NICU at the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC. For those of you who don’t know NICU stands for Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The NICU is where the sickest little babies go and for those who have never been, it’s the most surreal experience. You see all in one space...

At BlogHer ‘11 in San Diego, I carried my PC around with me the entire time I was awake, and that made me appreciate technology more than ever. In fact, it also helped me to realize that one of the greatest things about technology is just how freeing it can be. If you are carrying around one of the latest...

After working professionally at McGraw-Hill as well as prior work in the telecommunications industry, Tanya Gordon relocated to southwest Iowa in conjunction with her husband’s job. She launched Mommy Goggles over 5 years ago, rising to prominence as a national Mom Blogger. In addition, Tanya happily...

Golnaz Alibeigi is a graduating senior at the University of California Irvine studying Film and Media Studies. She has been a member of Windows UCrew for 2 years and feels that it is one of the greatest opportunities she has ever had. Her job is to teach and inform her peers about the benefits of Windows...

UPDATE 5/21: Find out more about this offer here at www.windows.com/freexbox . The school year is wrapping up for many but for those who are graduating high school - thoughts are already on the upcoming school year this fall and starting college. Starting college can be a big adjustment and we’d...

My name is Connor Lanman and I am not claiming I am the most interesting intern ever; and by no means am I working on routers for my 12 week summer internship at Microsoft. I am, however, working on a fairly unorthodox marketing project…sponsored by Microsoft. More on that in a minute. But you can imagine...

I have a love/hate relationship with New Year’s Eve that I think a lot of other people share. On the one hand I like an excuse for a fresh start. On the other, I hate to give up old habits. The problem is that giving up old habits isn’t incredibly difficult, but it’s hard, tiresome and exhausting to...

Something terrible happened this morning. I just realized that school is out for the summer and I didn’t realize it. This is a terrible sign that I’m getting too old to have friends who are still in school. On the plus side, I’m finally educated enough to know what the best technology graduation gifts...

If you’ve been reading the blog lately, you know that I’m trying to bring back Valentine’s Day as a cool hip holiday. It’s not my fault; really, I’m just a sucker for a love note. The best thing about a Valentine’s Day card, to be honest, isn’t the words (they are always cheesy) - it’s the thought. With...

There are millions of kids around the world who are eager to learn, but don’t have the resources to get a great education. That bothers us at Microsoft and there are a lot of great things our company does to support education. So we partnered with our friends at the “ Oprah ” show and HP to help some...

This week is dedicated to going green with your PC. We aren’t saying go out and buy a new PC made out of recycled materials but there are a few great ways you can make simple switches in your life using your PC. 1.) Check your power management settings. Windows makes it easy to save energy by automatically...

…as I said, “more to come”. You may have heard of the Double Rainbow Video . The guy who filmed this, Paul “Bear” Vasquez , lives in Yosemite and in the past month has gotten huge traffic for his ‘vivid’ reaction to that double rainbow. We hooked up with Bear to learn more about him & show him how...

Pamela Nguyen is an upcoming graduate of New York University and founder of Surviving College , a blog dedicated to helping students navigate the ins and outs of college. She is constantly on the lookout for nifty tools that will make a busy (and poor) college student's life much easier. A self-proclaimed...

It’s been a long year. Just when the economy was starting to look perky job growth stalled in its non-Census tracks. Then summer, which we normally can’t wait to see, broke down the door and turned most of the country into a sweltering puddle of sweat—except Seattle, where it’s...

Do you have too much tech in your life? What is too much tech? My co-worker @Brandonleblanc thinks it might be impossible to have too many PCs or too many gadgets. Yet, I often wonder if I do in my life. Do I need 4GBs of RAM? What exactly is a GB of RAM anyway? If you happen to be like me and have a...

If you are a devoted reader of the blog, you likely saw the post in late June where we announced that Jose Aguilar won the Windows Tech Makeover contest we ran on Facebook recently . As part of the prize package, television personality and designer Vern Yip went to his home in Tucson, Arizona with a...

The results of our Cannes video contest are in! We asked filmmakers from around the world to create a short film that showcases how a Windows 7 PC helps students stay on top of their studies and more. The ultimate prize? Over $21,000 in prizes, including a trip for 2 to the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival...

Jocelyn Lieppman is a senior at the University of Oregon. Originally from Seattle, she grew up in Houston, Texas. She currently works as a Microsoft Windows UCrew Student Representative at U of O. Adventure is in her heart, and as such it is no surprise that she is an international business major who...

Wow!  That pretty much sums up everyone’s reaction at the phenomenal response to the first Windows Recession Sweepstakes.  Turns out your odds of winning were a little better than 1/797 (factoring out duplicates, my comments, invalid entries, etc.).  And the lucky winner is: ...

A Windows Champion, Kara Apel is currently the Online Content Editor/Creator at News 12 in Augusta, Ga. ( http://www.wrdw.com ). She is also Managing Editor of U Chic ( http://universitychic.com/ ), an online resource for young women. In her spare time, she cheers for the University of South Carolina...

If you’re off to college in the fall or if you’re a parent planning for the upcoming school year, you’re probably in the market for new supplies. Now’s the time to do it, as back-to-school deals are in full swing. Technology deals from Microsoft are no exception. If you’re in the market for new hardware...