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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 1, 2009 @07:43AM from the cross-platform dept.

imamac writes "Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of MS programming technologies. However, the winner of the contest was an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"

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Also held on Microsoft campus by SuperKendall · 2009-09-01 08:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

Granted it moves every year, but this year it was also held at the Microsoft campus - and the 14 other apps were all written for Windows Mobile.
Microsoft sponsored, at the Microsoft Campus, with mostly Microsoft apps - well, is it really so inaccurate to label it a Microsoft event even though technically it is not?
It's close enough to be funny anyway.

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Re:Startup Weekend NOT An MS Event by Schnapple · 2009-09-01 08:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

Startup Weekend in general isn't an MS program, only the BizSpark program that helped organize this particular event.
Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.

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