What we are hearing from students is that Azure takes care of running their solution so they can focus on the creative part of problem-solving.” He said, adding that the lies in the students who can IT to face the challenges of the 21st century challenges”

With the first two intense days of project presentations and judges’ questions finally over, the 68 student teams participating in the Software Design competition at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup have been trimmed down to 15 teams that will go for the final stage tomorrow, Wenesday.

There appears to be atmosphere of anxiety and expectations as to which team wins the 2010 cup software competition in software design and embedded development even as the global software giant, Microsoft announced the finalists for the two categories.

It would be recalled that no fewer than 400 software incubators from 69 countries and regions around the world who can use technology to solve the world’s toughest challenges contested in the first round at on-going world’s premier student technology competition, the Imagine Cup 2010 initiated by the global software giant, Microsoft.

Running in its eighth series, Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft encourages young talents globally to apply their imagination, passion, and their creative technology innovations that can make a difference in solving the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGS) including poverty, disease, education, among others.