Spending some time with great speakers from Microsoft

I’m posting this as I’m in the same room with Scott Guthrie and he’s answering our questions :) Oh boy, he’s showing tons and tons of demos and features! And his presentation slides is a notepad text file containing all the points that he wants to cover. That’s a geek. I love it!

You might ask: why is that and who is us?

“Us” is a selection of Microsoft Student Partners from all around the world (like approximately 40). And the reason for that coming together is the first Microsoft Student Partner Summit that has been organized by the leaders of the student partner program, Leandro Doeyo and Jennifer Perret.

Today is already the second day of the summit. Yesterday we had a selection of cool speaker from all Microsoft who gave us insides (and I speak about deep dives into the technology) on different technologies, such as

  • Live Mesh: the new cool kid in the town
  • OSS: the Microsoft Open Source effort. Yeah, you read right, Microsoft has open source software
  • Popfly: and how to create cool games with Popfly.

  • Silverlight: oh so much insides :)
  • and tons of other topics.

The most interesting talk yesterday was the panel with bloggers from Microsoft, such as Major Nelson and Jeff Sandquist.

Another great event was the party that we had in the evening yesterday. Imagine the top floor of a skyscraper in Bellevue downtown with view over Seattle and Lake Washington. Tons of Xboxes and cool games, such as Halo 3 (4 on 4), Soul Calibur, Rockband 2 and Lego Batman. Food, drinks and music. It was GREAT! Today we are going to have another party again… let’s see where we end up today :)

Published on Sep 26th, 2008 — Tags: , , , ,
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  1. [...] Spending some time with great speakers from Microsoft - Christian Liensberger [...]

    Pingback by Student Daze - Connecting Student Partners Worldwide « I’ve made my mark — September 29, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

  2. Hi could you give me any tips on getting a MS internship. I hate to just fill out the online application and never hear from anyone. Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. I had an internship at Liberty Mutual this past summer and I’m ready to keep moving up the fortune 500 company list :)

    Comment by Kendall — September 2, 2009 @ 5:45 am

  3. Just try to get in contact with the teams and try it the direct way. That worked for me :)

    Comment by Christian Liensberger — December 10, 2009 @ 10:29 pm

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