Learn all summer and get prizes

Dear friends,

We are glad to present you a new portal that concentrates the most useful and relevant materials for a wide range of IT specialists.

You are an experienced developer, IT specialist, or student starting your acquaintance with Microsoft technologies — all the newest and necessary teaching materials, tools, and instructions are collected for you on the portal .

The new resource provides quick access to information on each of the areas:

• For developers, the portal contains information on mobile development, development for cloud and web development;
• The portal provides IT specialist with information on remote work, automation and expansion of the data center cloud, device security and management, and workload virtualization;
• Students and novice IT specialists will also be able to find useful materials and use the knowledge base presented in the Microsoft Virtual Academy, get tested and learn about the Microsoft DreamSpark free software program.

The portal is designed to optimize the search for training material, as well as information about the possibilities and conditions for the use of Microsoft products in any IT industry.
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To any of the representatives of the IT community, the portal offers:

• Acquire knowledge in Microsoft Virtual Academy ;
• Install the required software;
• Get a Microsoft account;
• Take part in the competition .

Attention! Competition!

To participate in the competition, it is necessary from July 1, 2014 to July 31, 2014 to get training and test your knowledge on the Microsoft Virtual Academy site, passing tests on the largest number of courses of your expert field in Russian and get the maximum possible points.

Using a Microsoft account, an IT field expert needs to look at courses and pass tests designed specifically for IT experts, the developer to view courses and pass tests for developers.

Competition results will be announced no later than August 10, 2014 .

According to the results of the competition, the most successful students of the Academy will become owners of six Nokia Lumia 625 smartphones : 3 winners in the direction of an IT expert and 3 winners in the direction of the Developer.



Competition rules are available on the portal by reference .

Do not wait, take part in the competition!

useful links

Portal Join the Tech Elite
Microsoft Virtual Academy Learning Portal
Microsoft Virtual Academy Student Competition