Helmers Blog

The upgrade of my blog to WordPress 3.0 has been finished successfully! So now I can start designing a new ‘look’ for my blog…so in a few weeks the site will have an up to date layout again.

It’s E3 time again. Just like every year Microsoft has some nice new XBOX 360 features to announce. Watch it live over at xbox.com.

The most, in my opinion, interesting feature will be the new XBOX 360 add-on called Kinect (also known as Project Natal), which will make it possible to control your XBOX 360 without a physical controller. Your body is the new controller!

Just earlier today Microsoft has announced that of today Office Web Apps if you live in the US, UK, Canada or Ireland. Personally I don’t live in one of the previous countries, but if you participated in the beta and therefore were already able to edit Excel and PowerPoint documents through http://skydrive.live.com you also can use the other Office Web Apps from today.

Just go to http://office.live.com and upload (and edit) all your Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote documents!

Just received an e-mail from Microsoft Learning today. I passed the MCTS Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Client Virtualization exam! Strange, normally you have to check the Prometric website to see if you have passed a Microsoft exam. Probably the system is working a lot smoother then with the last exams, let’s hope it stays this way with all the upcoming exams!

Last monday I blogged about the upcoming pilot of the MCP Learning Rewards Program! The Registration started an hour earlier! So if you want to join, be quick since there are only 10.000 spaces available!

Step 1 : Visit http://www.mylearningrewards.net and click the Register now button. Step 2: Select MCP from the list and click Submit Step 3: Fill out the form (except for the Partner location ID) and click Submit.

You will now receive an e-mail with your password. Use this info to logon to the MyLearningRewards.com website.