HTTP:: Microsoft Launches Office Winter Games Contest
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For those of you who see the Winter Olympic Games as an opportunity for freestyle blogging rather than alpine skiing, Microsoft has a sweet deal lined up. In collaboration with the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), the Redmond company has launched a contest designed to put together a blogging team that will report daily from the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The software giant revealed that a student and a female blogger would be sent to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, as winners of the Office Winter Games Contest, and both would leverage Microsoft technologies in order to report from the event. “Microsoft Office will give bloggers the reporting, editing and communication tools they’ll require across the PC, mobile phone and browser,†noted Janice V. Kapner, senior director of Information Worker Group Communications at Microsoft. Of course, the Office Winter Games Contest not only offers a chance to “participate,†alongside members of the credentialed press, at the 201!
0 Olympic Winter Games, but to also test drive first-hand the next iteration of the Office System before general availability, which is planned for spring 2010. “Because blogs and online reporting are an increasingly popular way for sports fans to consume news about their favorite events, Microsoft will equip...
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