Giving The latest in Microsoft tech (News, Reviews, Events, Updates) across Middle East and Africa
Ten female developers will participate in the first cohort of the Microsoft LEAP Program in Nigeria. They will recieve sixteen weeks of training in technical support software engineering roles. Microsoft Leap Hackathon in Nigeria This is part of Microsoft's plans to encourage diversity and inclusivity in software engineering roles in
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Today marks the beginning of .Net Conf 2019 and global release of .Net Core 3.0. .NET Core 3.0 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It now includes support for WPF and Windows Forms, Full stack web development with C# and Razor and more. Find full release notes and downloads
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Microsoft Women in Tech Are you a female interested in becoming a software developer or already a developer? Microsoft Tech community Kenya invites you to the launch of its female community on October 5, 2019. 10 am at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya. The invitation reads; We will be launching the Microsoft
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Microsoft is inviting developers and software architects to a one day training event in Lagos. Microsoft is hosting a free one day Microsoft Azure Training Day event for developers and software architects. The training will be on migrating applications to the cloud. The training is scheduled to take place 13th September
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Microsoft announces thirty one new Azure edge sites. Bringing its cloud customers a faster network and their consumers increased satisfaction. The announced sites will include new edge sites in Kenya and Nigeria. With upcoming sites in Egypt, Turkey and Israel later. The sites will be located in Nairobi, Lagos, Cairo
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We share with you where .NET Conf 2019 events are taking place across Middle East and Africa. .NET Conf 2019 is here and live broadcast is set to take place, September 23rd to the 25th 2019. This is a free virtual 3 day developer event showcasing new developments across the
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Microsoft hosts 32 women in technology in a hackathon event in Nairobi. 9th July 2019, Nairobi: Kenya Furthering its commitment to diversity and inclusivity in the engineering and technology space, Microsoft hosted the LEAP Hackathon. The event, which strives to increase technology skills, facilitate learning through challenges as well
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Microsoft Ignite The Tour will take place in Johannesburg, Tel Aviv and Dubai in 2020. Microsoft's annual technical training for developers and IT professionals conference, Ignite, will be hitting the roads again. Microsoft Ignite is going global and will be in a city near you next year. This will be after
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All-Female Microsoft LEAP Hackathon event in Nairobi. I thought it was going to be just an ordinary hackathon, when I first heard about the Microsoft LEAP hackathon. Where you just go and compete for prizes and that is it. Says Rosianah Musyoka, selected participant at Microsoft LEAP hackathon in
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Nat Friedman is visiting top GitHub contribution country Nigeria to interact with developers. Nat friedman, GitHub CEO and Microsoft Corporate Vice President in March announced he was heading to Nigeria and Ghana in a tweet. He shared "I’m going to Nigeria and Ghana for the first time later this year,
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