Microsoft Journal

Microsoft announced to the Philippines the Game Development, XNA. It is a creators club online. How it works is simple and you earn by cash.

Basically, make games for XBOX 360 and Windows with Microsoft free tools, sell your game in XBOX Live and make money!

While the official launch of Xbox LIVE Community Games won’t be until later this year, you can start working on that great game right now with XNA Game Studio and the XNA Creators Club Online community!

XNA. A community all about games - created by you, played by everyone.

July 21, 2008 - Microsoft Windows Home Server Power Pack is released to manufacturing. You can also download the Power Pack at the Dowload Center. For those of you who are too lazy to get it manually, it will be released via Windows Update in August.

According to the TechNet blog, Power Pack 1 provides a range of new enhancements, including support for home computers running Windows Vista x64 editions, backup of home server Shared Folders, improvements to remote access, more efficient power consumption and better performance.

Windows Home Server users, is the long wait worth it?

The Future of Student Collaboration is Here!

The Mapua Institute of Technology together with Microsoft, empowers MIT students with Live at Edu.

Live@edu is the ultimate suite of applications. With the world’s leading software company,  it’ll give students what they need.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is your online place to save, access, and share documents and files. No downloads are required.

Windows Live Spaces. Windows Live Spaces let students set up a space for group projects, campus clubs, or personal pages. Link to documents stored on your SkyDrive, create group discussions, and you can create blogs.

Windows Messenger. The world’s #1 IM client lets students do more than just chat. You can search Encarta Online, share documents and folders that are too large to send as attachments, send SMS message from Messenger interface.

Easy access. Live at edu services are accessible via mobile phones.

Are you on a constant travel? Do you want to synchronize your files to wherever you are on the Globe? Get started today with Microsoft Live Mesh.

Microsoft Live Mesh will seamlessly connect you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about - wherever you happen to be.

Devices. Synchronize folders across any or all of the devices in your mesh.

Live Desktop. Your Live Desktop has free online storage to make it easy to sync and access folders from the web.

Folders. Folders in your mesh are available from your Live Desktop and can be synchronized with all of your devices.

News. Get quick access to the latest updates across your mesh. For shared folders, see who’s changed what when.

Simply put, Microsoft Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world.

As of July 2008, here are the Philippine MVPs.

Adrian Rodriguez - Games for Windows
Allan Mangune - ASP/ASP.NET
Carlo Guerrero - Mobile Devices
Chester Coronel - Office System
GP Carreon - Mobile Devices
Jasper Jugan - Windows Desktop Experience
Jay-R Barrios - Windows Set Up / Deployment
Joanne Ortiz - XBOX
Joey Gurango - Visual Studio Team System
Jay Paloma - Enterprise Security
Patrick Oliveros - ASP/ASP.NET
Joseph Pacamarra - Consumer Security
Michael Corpuz - Visual Basic
Glenn Gamboa - SQL
Philip Ortiz - XBOX
Rey Vegafria - Mobile Devices
Rodel Dagumampan - Visual C#
Rodney Jao - Device Application Development
Warren Yu - BizTalk Server
Wilson Chua - Digital Media
Wilson Ng - System Center