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You accidentally dial the wrong number, calling an old boyfriend by mistake. You compose an e-mail complaining about your boss, and somehow send it to your boss. It’s never pretty when these things happen; and, when we make mistakes like this we usually feel like idiots. Fortunately, there’s...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode #36, “Steve Marx on Azure” . In this episode, the one and only Windows Azure Tactical Strategist, Steve Marx , joins Dmitry and Peter to give...

Join us live at 9:00 AM Pacific Time on Thursday, September 30, 2010 for a virtual, interactive roundtable discussion on migration strategies, standards, and support for organizations moving from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8. As organizations deploy Windows 7, many still depend on web applications...

IT PROs and Decision Makers may want to take a look at these webcasts (Level 200): Title: Search Your Way to Success: Leveraging SharePoint's Search Capabilities in Public Web Sites Date: 9/14/10 - Time: 1 pm PST Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways: Objective 1: Understand the key principles...

...when you can save 200 Euro by registering by August 31st? Great content awaits in Berlin, 8-12 November 2010. Technical Tracks, Pre-Conference Seminars, Birds of a Feather sessions: all presented by experts who will share their knowledge and experience. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet friends...

We're on hiatus for the summer, but if you missed any of the Live Meetings for Managers you can view on-demand any time. Check out the great presentations created specifically to help managers of IT professionals and developers understand the value of certification for their teams, take advantage...

Just because we’re excited about PDC coming to our living room this year doesn’t mean we don’t have something special in store for this fall’s TechEd Europe , too: this year, all TechEd attendees will receive a free subscription to TechNet! As an IT pro or developer, you’re already familiar with TechNet...

If you’re a developer on Microsoft technologies, you know all about TechEd and PDC, even if you’ve never attended one. We’ve been holding both conference for almost two decades (the first PDC was in 1991, and the first TechEd in 1993). If you’ve been fortunate enough to attend either conference over...

All our racers are now in New Orleans, awaiting the announcement of the final results this afternoon at TechEd! Friday’s challenge was a pulse-pounding one—our teams got quite the tour of New Orleans. How did it go? Watch and see…

Tech.Ed Australia 2010 is from August 24-27 th , at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast. Passing along an invitation for MCTs from our Australian event team… We are inviting applications from MCTs and MVPs to carry out the duties of a Technical Learning Guide (TLG).TLGs are...

The results are in: Team Green wins the Washington, DC challenge ! With two of our ten challenges now closed (Build Your Team and Washington, DC), the Green and Gold teams are tied for first place with 15 points each, with the Red and Blue teams tied for second with 9 points each. There are still five...

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After two weeks of team-building and on-line challenges, the IT Grand Prix kicked off today in earnest, with our four teams competing to help non-profits in Washington, D.C. How’d it go? Hear it from the teams themselves: Gold Team and Green Team partnered with Byte Back to help train homeless...

The Born to Learn crew is heading to New Orleans next weekend for TechEd 2010! If you’re attending TechEd as well, stop by the Community Lounge throughout the event and say hi We’ll have staff at the Community Lounge all week long, but we’ve got some special sessions and topics scheduled as well:  ...

Launching an event like IT Grand Prix can be a little nerve-wracking. Even more than the intricate planning and logistics (ably managed by Dana Calleja on a ridiculously short schedule) and the technology ( Erwin Chan manages the slick new mini-site on our Born to Learn platform, currently experiencing...

Please join us for a special Live Meeting series created specifically for managers of IT professionals and developers. Click below for more information and to register for: Get Ahead with Microsoft Software Assurance Benefits Learn how to lower your training costs and ready your team for Microsoft technologies...

If you’re heading down to New Orleans next month, be sure to stop by the Microsoft Learning booth and the Community Lounge and say hi (and maybe score some sweet MCP swag)! This year, several of our Born to Learn contributors will be in attendance, so keep an eye out for: David Bjurman-Birr, Senior Program...

If you missed our latest Live Meeting for Managers, or if you want to watch again, you can now view the recording. "Exam Forensics and What Microsoft is Doing to Catch the Cheaters " Join this Live Meeting to hear what Microsoft and other organizations are doing to protect certification from...

If you registered or if you are thinking about attending TechEd, why not add the TechEd gadget to your desktop ?  This is the official TechEd 2010 gadget, which provides a countdown to the event in New Orleans, information on event logistics, a live blog feed, links to 'the social' and much...

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST. The live Microsoft keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers: End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser IT choice...