TechMeet held @ DECC, Kathmandu

27th May, 2009
Venue: DECC, UMTC, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu

As scheduled, Microsoft Nepal today organized the meeting with Mr. Jonathan Murray, World Wide Technology Officer, Microsoft and Mr. Oliver Bell, Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific. Also, attraction of the program was the presence of Mr. Feroz Mahmud, Country Manager of Microsoft Bangladesh.
Everything got started formally at 9 am in the morning with a welcome speech by Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, Country Manager, Microsoft Nepal.

Back to the era of 1960s to 2009 and a decade forward to 2020, Mr. Murray presented his perspective on the trend in the growth and advancement of internet and software industry in the world. He put forward his views on Cloud Computing in Windows Azure platform and subsequent technology shift to the age of Ambient Intelligence. Mr. Murray also wanted to let people have an idea that the present education system in colleges and universities is not going to be of much significance to address the ever changing and ever growing technology needs, problems and solutions. So, what is going to be the matter of interest is a person’s ability to learn, unlearn and relearn the relevant technology capsules to meet the global IT requirements.

Mr. Feroz Mahmud in the other hand expressed his belief on the high end competency level of the South Asian IT community of people to deliver world class softwares and IT solutions provided they have access to some core guidances, healthy environment and good opportunity but made an early exit from the speaker’s desk.

Last, but not the least, Mr. Oliver Bell, APAC Officer, Microsoft talked on the issues of interoperability. He expressed his descent concern over the matter by saying that in an increasingly interconnected computing landscape, enabling interoperability between products from different vendors has become more important than ever. Achieving effective interoperability between a wide range of products to meet customer needs is where Microsoft sees future in.

At the end of all the sessions, Microsoft Student Partners among the presentees smartly took TechMeet reason as an opportunity for a short GD(Group Discussion) on their own diverse MSP issues.

Bing: Microsoft’s new Search Engine

Are you aware guys that Microsoft is really trying hard to beat the world of web search apart from it’s core software business? You understand whom Microsoft is challenging in this context ? Let it be your part to find out. Yes, within the next few days, Microsoft is expected to come up with a new search engine called “Bing”. The code name for the working period had been designated the name as “Kumo” for it.

It has also come to my notice that this search engine is gonna be a replacement or rather a modification in name and many other essential factors for the already existing Microsoft’s Live Search. But guys, this is just an speculation as Microsoft is yet to give a final go for this product.

So folks, be ready for a new day. Be ready to use the new search engine, be ready to ‘Bing it’!

Nature’s call: Fun Meeting at Naghdaha

Being a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP), I got this opportunity to share and enjoy a quality time with some of the most active MSPs from different engineering and technical colleges of Nepal and a couple of people from Microsoft Nepal as well. This was a kind of informal gathering at a spot called Naghdaha( Nepali translation: Nagh means snake, daha means lake), a place full of greenery and a beautiful lake which lies exactly south, not so far away from the main city of Kathmandu.

Although, it was a MSP gathering, we missed our own Community lead, Mr. Shailendra Jha this time since he was leading a delegation of Nepalese Microsoft Community including an MSP Mr. Kushal Gautam to an Annual International technology fair TechEd India 2009 an event by Microsoft to Hyderbad in India.

It was a cool and sunny Saturday afternoon and the meeting was more like a fun. We all the MSPs along with country manager, Microsoft Nepal Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar and Technology Specialist Mr. Udhyan Timilsina got sitted at one of the many shades available there something in a manner that looked like we were in a round table meeting (But I tell you guys, everything was so informal) from where we could enjoy the great looking panoramic view of the lake and the people enjoying boating there as well.

We enjoyed food and drinks together and had lots of unofficial chats, had a deeper insight of each of the MSPs personal life, a bit of privacy access and so on and so fourth. To make the gathering even more interesting, we hired a couple of boats and all of us had a boating session for about an hour. Looking at the facial expressions and body postures of some of the people among us; it seemed as if they had hydrophobia but interestingly everybody nodded a comfortable ‘yes’ for this experience.

Yes, of course we had some serious talks together for couple of times as well. We took time to discuss about our future plans and events, status of MSP activities at respective colleges and ‘Ask for genuine’ issues. We also shared our individual perspective on the present status of Nepalese Microsoft Student Partners, how we could go about more efficiently in the years

to come and roll out more fruitful and rewarding programs at colleges.

Finally, as most of our activities pushed our informality to its limit, we didn’t really realise when we exactly started packing our stuffs to get back to our destinations, but I think the group photo sessions at last, gradual setting of sun and some bid adieus from beautiful lady MSPs made us to realize that, yes it was time to leave.

TechMeet with Jonathan Murray on 27th May, 2009

It’s a great news for me as a Microsoft Student Partner that Jonathan Murray, World Wide Technology Officer, Microsoft and Oliver Bell, APAC Technology Officer, Microsoft are visiting Nepal and I have been invited by Microsoft Nepal to attend this event.

The event will also see the presence of no. of faculties from different engineering colleges in which Microsoft Student Partners are present.
Since the program will begin early 8:30 am in the morning on Wednesday, 27th may, I will be reaching the venue which is DECC, United World Trade Center, Tripureshwor around the same timing. The program is expected to be over by about 4:30pm in the evening.

Lets hope that the meet comes out to be fruitful in whatever way it should come out to be.