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The UK has always been respected as a world leader in Design and Technology, with over 150,000 designers in the industry and 50,000 students following design courses across a whole range of disciplines from Architecture to Fashion, Digital and Multimedia Design.

Amid increased competition from overseas the UK’s design industry is increasingly in demand from clients around the world who recognise the unique blend of creativity, quality and ability to deliver.

At Microsoft UK we want to support Designers in the UK by providing new ways to express their creativity, new tools to make ideas into reality, new ways of working with extended teams of developers to deliver that stunning user experience, new ways to delight clients by exceeding their expectations.

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GPU Encoding for Expression Encoder 4 Pro SP2
Get detailed information about how to take advantage of the newest generation of GPU encoding for CUDA H.264. Learn how you can optimize for output quality while reducing CPU load. Eric Juteau

Announcing Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview
Dig into the details about Blend for Windows Developer Preview with this compile of links to content resources to help you get started learning, coding, and polishing Metro style apps. Expression Blend Team

Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know
In this article — the first of a series that aims to show you how you can use HTML5 to build apps for the Web — Brandon Satrom introduces HTML5, describes Microsoft's approach to the new standard and helps you think about how to adopt HTML5 technolog... More... Brandon Satrom, MSDN Magazine

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Tip 354: Reduce, reuse, recycle
You can make elements on a screen into user controls that can be used in multiple pages throughout a SketchFlow prototype.

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