Microsoft action @ Assembly Summer

Game development

If you are interested in Game Development, we have also invited special quests to our stand: Kajak Game Development Lap and CarLab from Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, as well as Tampere University of applied Sciences to tell what they do in the field of game development. They are also giving seminar Friday at 2pm on "Learning how to teach making games". They are also hosting Game Dev Camp at the Old School area Friday and Saturday from 12:00 until 18:00. More info from Microsoft stand.

Meet Microsoft

Meet the following Microsoft people at our stand:

Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Paananen is our "Mobile guru". He is responsible for Windows Marketplace for Mobile in the Europe and Windows Mobile phones and Mobile services in Finland. He is one of the co-founders of MobileMonday community.

Jukka "Waldo" Wallasvaara is responsible for academic and student connections. He is also our "Enthusiastic Evangelist" who knows all the cool stuff that you might not know that exists!

Mark Grady is the Developer and Business Marketing Lead for Windows Mobile in EMEA. His role is to work with Developers and leading ISV's identifying, supporting and executing on marketing opportunities around Windows Marketplace for Mobile that will launch later this year. Before Mark joined Microsoft he worked for Orange UK developing propositions for Orange's SMB customer base. Prior to this Mark worked in a variety of roles for Virgin Home and BT. He has been active in the mobile applications industry for more than five years. Mark will do a presentation Friday at 1 – 2 pm " Distributing and Monetizing Windows Mobile Applications through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile"

Pasi Mäkinen is Architect Evangelist in Microsoft Finland. Highly skilled and technical questions will be answered.

Matti Antila is responsible for Visual Studio ja Expression Studio product sales and marketing.

Take part in the cool competitions

Windows Mobile competition is about coding your entries on top of Windows Mobile 6.1 platform. There will be more than 3000 euros available as extra prizes given out by Microsoft for the winners - on top of the normal Assembly Summer prizes. You can participate on Real Wild and Game development categories to this extra competition. If the environment is not known to you or you lack the phones running Windows Mobile 6.1, don't worry - we will have devices to be loaned is you need them. 

Silverlight competition - For the last two years, Microsoft has also been looking for the best Silverlight entry in Real Wild competition, where you can submit your browser run entries. The same competition is launching again this year, it will be run with Silverlight 3 which should be shipping well before the event. Get your beta from www.silverlight.net and start coding.

The "worst hardware" for Windows 7 - The new Windows 7 is coming in October and the release candidates have been available for now. The interesting thing is, that unlike Vista, the new Windows 7 seems to be running with much lighter hardware that it's predecessor. Microsoft has launched a hardware competition to find the oldest and "worst" hardware which can run the new operating system and get it connected to Assembly network.