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Remember the dip in the graph? Well the generous Microsoft Imagine Cup organizers have filled it up with an extra $10,000 bringing the first-place prize money back to $25,000. Can’t complain about that and I’m sincerely grateful for their extra generosity which I must stress was not in any bit compelled.


Comments for "Microsoft ups Imagine Cup 2008 prize"

  1. sw

    Lucky!

    Are you in Europe? Europeans put periods instead of commas to signify digit separation.

  2. Long Zheng

    @sw: Nah, my European friend insisted he use Keynote to make the splashy graph. I’ll get that fixed ;)

  3. Joseph Wang

    Wow, nice! Congrats again Long!

  4. MJ

    congrats, long.

    I hope you give me money.
    hahaha.

  5. Wouter

    Wow, that’s great Long! I definitely didn’t expect that to happen. :)
    But I still wonder why they had originally lowered it… What’s 10 000 dollars compared to the total cost of organizing the Imagine Cup?
    Using keynote to create a graph about Microsoft giving you that much money isn’t very kind, is it? :d

  6. UXPassion.com

    Haha, that’s cool. Who knows what will happen after this blog post… Maybe 66% more? :))

  7. sw

    Ha, nice to see the graph “corrected”.

    Congratulations!

  8. Kevin

    Excellent, Long! Money is good.

  9. Drew

    @SW: Actually, we Europeans use commas as digit separators, just like everyone else!

  10. Andrew

    Nice of MS to do that for you :)

  11. Andre F.

    So.. does that mean you cashing out for our trips to Aussieland next year? :D

  12. Avatar

    damn… i guess Long will be getting a new computer soon. maybe a blackbird 02? :P

  13. Peter Menadue

    Long,

    Great to see - congrats again for your win, and good on you for acknowledging the addition to the prize…

  14. Karun AB

    So an even bigger party now eh? ;)
    As Andrew said, it was nice of MS to do that :) You guys did deserve it :)

  15. Marques Lyons

    This is awesome news, especially for a guy like me who still has a 30GB!

  16. Marques Lyons

    Oops, I thought I was commenting on the Zune news, darn computer!

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