I've been running Vista on my Media Center since beta 2 - and I just love it! When Vista RC2 came I finally took the chance and installed it on my precious tablet PC, which are the computer I use at work and at the university. I was a little afraid it would give me a lot of trouble, as beta 2 simply sucked on it (it wasn't beta 2 itself, but the crappy drivers).

Well, I must admit that RC2 is not just a good looking OS, but also a very fast OS. I have 1,5 Gb RAM in my computer, but after installing Vista RC2, it feels like I've upgraded the amount of RAM. My computer is actually a lot faster than it was in XP. I think it's because of better swapping algorihms - but who knows, maybe Microsoft just used their magic wand?

So, everything is fine... except of one small detail! I miss the "Ask me what to do"-option in "Power button and lid settings". When I have my computer in tablet mode, it's very easy for me to press the power button by accident. So - do you know how to get the "Ask me what to do"-button back? Please, ask me what to do...

On Friday I've invited the students from University of Aarhus and Engineering College of Aarhus to Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC) in Vedbæk near Copenhagen. The intention of the visit is to show the students what products Microsoft is developing here in Denmark, how it is to work for Microsoft and of course show them some of the new technologies Microsoft plan to launch within the next few months.

The plan for the day:
Kl. 05.00 We meet at the university in Aarhus and get some breakfast
Kl. 05.30 We jump into the bus, which will take us to Vedbæk
Kl. 10.00 Welcome by Michael Nielsen, Product Unit Manager, Dynamics Tools
Kl. 10.15 Working for Microsoft and life on MDCC campus/ Anja Leschly
Kl. 10.45 Microsoft Imagine Cup/ Henrik Westergaard Hansen (MSDK)
KL.11.05 Mobility/ Niels Bo Theilgaard (added)
Kl. 11.35 Tour of MDCC Campus
Kl. 12.00 Lunch in the café
Kl. 12.45 Demo/presentation of Dynamics AX/ Arvid Nielsen
Kl. 13.15 Demo of Vista & Office 12/ Pau Larsen (MSDK)
Kl. 14.15 Demo/presentation of Dynamics Tools/ Michael Tyrsted
Kl. 15.00 Demo/presentation of Dynamics NAV/ Michael Rosenørn
Kl. 15.30 It's time to go home...
Kl. 20.00 Finally, home again

So far there are 66 people who wants to spend a day at MDCC. We have a few empty seats in the bus, so contact me as soon as possible if you want to join us

Hi, my name is Niels Ladegaard Beck. This is my first post on this brand new site. I'm 26 years old and study computer science at University of Aarhus, Denmark. What I'm going to blog about here probably isn't my studying at the university, but more about my big passion for Microsoft and their products. I'm Microsoft Student Partner at University of Aarhus which means, that I'm telling the students about the wonderful world of Microsoft

In the past month I (and my fellow Student Partners, Mark Rasmussen, Claus Nielsen and Jakob Andersen and Henrik W. Hansen from Microsoft Denmark) have given lectures about ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas, Workflow Foundation, securing .Net code and VSTS. These were given at University of Aarhus, University of Aalborg and Engineering College of Aarhus. I talked about Atlas which I find is a very exciting topic. If you want, you can view my slides and my final demo code (the slides are in Danish - a very-easy-to-learn-language ).

A part of being a Microsoft Student Partner is talking about new technologies. So how do I learn about these new technologies? Well... next week I'm going to Barcelona, Spain, to the Tech-Ed conference Simply can't wait!

Wow! That was my first post - cool Let's see, maybe there will be more than this one some day...