Starting April 24, 2008, the laboratory was renamed to Microsoft Innovation Center.

The laboratory includes 26 last-generation Lenovo workstations, with include Core 2 Duo processors and 4 GB of RAM. The laboratory's infrastructure is modern and based on Windows 2008 Server. All workstations run using the Hyper V function. All laboratories are teach on virtual machines. For the developing the laboratory uses Vista machines with Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition. For administration the laboratory uses virtual machines with Windows 2008 Server and Powershell.

The activities of the laboratory include:

• Organizing presentations
  • Presentation of the Microsoft Academic Program
  • Microsoft launches of new technology
  • Demonstrations of the latest technologies
• Organizing of practical laboratories
  • introduction to the .NET platform
  • C# 3.0 and LINQ
  • ASP.NET 3.5
  • SQL Server 2008 administration
  • Windows 2008 Server administration
  • Windows Communication Foundation
  • Windows Presentation Foundation
  • Silverlight 2

• Facilitating access of students to the Microsoft technologies
  • The MSDN Academic Alliance program 
• Facilitating access to study materials
  • Ebooks
  • E-learning
  • IT Academy Student Pass, available through MSDNAA
• Putting together students with companies in the software industry
  • The program Students to Business (S2B)

Coordinator: Prof. Nicolae Tapus

Team: Decebal Popescu, Vlad Panait