Donortec has recently received a catalogue update from Microsoft. We've added 9 new products to our list of Microsoft products available for donation including Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Outlook with Business Contact Manager and Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Server.

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition is an integrated development environment (IDE) for individual developers and small teams who build applications that operate on Microsoft Windows, in Microsoft Office, or on Microsoft's web and mobile-device platforms.

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If you have heard the buzz on the street, the latest gadget from Microsoft is soon to hit the stores: The new "Microsoft Xbox Kinect". As per Microsofts's website:

"Kinect  brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways without using a controller. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch. Moving, laughing and cheering. See a ball? Kick it. Want to join a friend in the fun? Simply jump in. Imagine controlling movies and music with the wave of a hand or the sound of your voice*.  With Kinect, technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine. And the best part is Kinect works with every Xbox 360."

More details and videos at : http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect

So, to celebrate this latest gadget from Microsoft, we're giving away One (1) Microsoft Xbox Kinect to a lucky DonorTec member. To be in the draw, your organisation will simply need to place an order with DonorTec before between October 1 and November 30, 2010. Prize will be drawn on December 5.

The prize will include both a brand new Xbox 360 console and the Microsoft Kinect addon.

DonorTec will be attending this year's Making Links conferece and we encourage DonorTec members to attened this important nonprofit technology event. Making Links is a conference that seeks to engage interested people, organisations and groups working at the intersection of social action and Technology– including community workers, educators, trainers, nonprofit organisations, people who work with marginalised groups, activists and researchers.

Registrations for the Making Links 2010 conference are now open. The conference will be held from the 15th to the 17th of November at the State Library of Western Australia located in Perth. Early Bird registrations are open until the 14th of October and represent upto a 50% discount off full price conference registration prices.

www.makinglinks.org.au/register/

Please note that recent changes have occured with in the Symantec Enterprise program. Eligibilbe organisations are now able to request up to 2 products per fiscal year with up to 100 user licenses per product. There have been no changes to the Donor Partner or the Eligibility Criteria.

Previously: Symantec Enterprise products were only available in bulk user licensed packs (e.g. 25 user, 75 user editions)

Now: Symantec Enterprise products are now available on a per user license basis and up to 100 licences of each product may be requested. Please note that Backup products only require one license for multiple users.

New products have been added and some old ones have been withdrawn as part of the transition into the new ordering guidelines.

More details are in the Symantec Enterprise section of our website.