TORONTO — July 1 1 , 2012 — At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2012 in Toronto today, Microsoft Corp. honored the strongest-performing Microsoft Dynamics partners for demonstrating significant customer impact by developing and delivering innovation solutions that help customers drive their businesses forward.

“This is the time of year when we get together to recognize and celebrate the achievements of the top Microsoft Dynamics partners and support services,” said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Microsoft Dynamics Partners and Support Services. “As a partner-centric business, the success of Microsoft Dynamics is directly dependent upon the expertise, commitment and performance of our partners. The quality and depth of our channel is envied in the marketplace; therefore, the annual Microsoft Dynamics award winners are clearly an elite set of partners — the best of the best. On behalf of Microsoft, I thank our award winners and congratulate them for their achievements this past year and for their dedication and support of Microsoft Dynamics applications.”

At WPC 2012, 10 Microsoft Dynamics partners were recognized with the Microsoft WPC 2012 Awards. More than 294 partners worldwide submitted nominations for their solutions, and award winners and finalists were selected from this group based on their innovative use of Microsoft Dynamics to deliver strategic and valuable solutions that meet diverse customer needs. The Microsoft WPC 2012 award recipients are as follows:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year: PowerObjects

• Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Business Excellence: Zero2Ten Inc.

• Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace Solution Excellence: ClickDimensions

• Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year: INFORMA Software Consulting GmbH

• Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing Partner of the Year: Edgewater Fullscope Inc.

• Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year: Blue Horseshoe

• Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year: Ignify Inc.

• Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year: Systems Advisors Group

• Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year: Traviata

• Microsoft Dynamics Public Sector Partner of the Year: Rock Solid Technologies Inc.

Out of thousands of partners, Microsoft also honored 13 resellers with the 2012 Microsoft Dynamics Regional Reseller of the Year award, and nine independent software vendors (ISVs) were awarded the 2012 Microsoft Dynamics Regional ISV of the Year award. In addition, select top performers were honored from the Microsoft Dynamics channel, including Tribridge Holdings, LLC, named the Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding Reseller of the Year, and AXtension bv, named the Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding ISV of the Year. Several key criteria were considered when selecting Microsoft Dynamics Certified Partners for this special recognition, including outstanding sales performance, thorough technological expertise on Microsoft Dynamics products and services, a consistently high level of customer satisfaction, and feedback from Microsoft team members. The performance-based Microsoft Dynamics Regional Partner of the Year award recipients are as follows:

Reseller Awards

• Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding Reseller of the Year: Tribridge Holdings, LLC

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Asia Pacific: eSavvy Pty Ltd.

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Canada: BDO Canada LLP

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Central and Eastern Europe: Korus Consulting

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for China: ACT Solutions Limited

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for France: Logica France

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Germany: Raber+ Märcker GmbH

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for India: Godrej Infotech Limited

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Japan: Accenture Japan

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Latin America: C-Metrix Business Solutions

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Middle East and Africa: Columbus (Middle East)

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for United Kingdom: eBECS Ltd.

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for United States: mcaConnect, LLC

• Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Western Europe: Qurius Spain S.A

ISV Awards

• Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding ISV of the Year: AXtension bv

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Asia Pacific: Flintfox International Ltd.

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Canada: Diamond Software Inc.

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Central and Eastern Europe: Elva Baltic

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for France: Prodware

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Germany: INFOMA Software Consulting GmbH

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Middle East and Africa: VeriPark

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for United Kingdom: Anglia Business Solutions Ltd.

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for United States: TDCI Inc.

• Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the Year for Western Europe: Ferranti Computer Systems

During the recognition ceremony, a select group of Microsoft Dynamics partners were named to the Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and the Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club. The Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle represents an elite group of the most strategic Microsoft Dynamics partners from around the globe, with sales achievements that rank them in the highest echelon of the Microsoft Dynamics global network of partners. These partners are recognized for their exceptional overall company performance in delivering valuable solutions to Microsoft Dynamics customers. Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club honors high-performing Microsoft Dynamics partners with a commitment to customers reflected in their business success and growth.

A list of the Microsoft WPC 2012 and Regional Partner award winners and finalists can be found online at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/partnernetwork/docs/DynamicsPartnerAwards.pdf.

A list of the 2012 Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle award winners can be found online at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/partnernetwork/docs/DynamicsInnerCircle.pdf.

A list of the 2012 Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club award winners can be found online at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/partnernetwork/docs/DynamicsPresidentsClub.pdf.

About Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference

Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft’s partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft. More information can be found at http://www.digitalwpc.com and on the Partner Network.

About Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics solutions empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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TORONTO — July 10, 2012 — During the second day of Microsoft Corp.’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), top executives from the company announced new training, tools and other programs that enable partners to deliver compelling new cloud services to their customers. Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business, announced a community technology preview (CTP) of new technologies that enable hosting service providers to use their Windows Server data centers to deliver capabilities consistent with services running in Windows Azure. In addition, he announced a new program that gives partners guidance, training and software tools to help customers transition from VMware’s virtual infrastructure to Microsoft’s cloud.

“We’ve taken everything that we’ve learned from running data centers and services at a global scale to usher in the new era of the cloud OS,” Nadella said. “Microsoft offers partners modern yet familiar technology to meet customer demand on their path to the cloud.”

With the new CTP, hosting service providers can offer customers turnkey cloud services, including high-scale websites and virtual machine hosting with an extensible self-service portal experience. These capabilities, which run on Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012, will offer hosting providers some of the same experiences and services recently announced by Windows Azure. Go Daddy, the largest global Web hoster, is piloting these new capabilities to deliver new cloud services for customers.

“Customers view Go Daddy as an IT partner with which they can grow,” said Scott Brown, vice president of Product Development – Hosting at Go Daddy. “These new capabilities give customers a seamless path to expanding their online presence. In addition, the improved site performance, scalability and availability all lead to a more enjoyable experience for our customers and their visitors.”

In addition, the new program announced on stage, Switch to Hyper-V, will allow partners to grow their virtualization, private and hybrid cloud computing practices while also helping customers improve IT agility at a lower cost with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

Already, partners are making significant progress in helping their customers with this transition. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FyrSoft recently helped Iowa-based Pella Corp. migrate nearly 100 percent of its VMware infrastructure — nearly 700 VMware virtual machines — to Hyper-V, moving the company beyond virtualization to a private cloud solution. With the Microsoft private cloud, Pella has evolved its business while reducing IT costs and improving efficiencies. Server and Tools Business Corporate Vice President Takeshi Numoto further details partner opportunities in the era of the cloud OS on a blog published today, and more information can be found here.

In addition, in a keynote that further reinforced how Microsoft is working with its partners to transform businesses throughout the world, Microsoft Business Solutions President Kirill Tatarinov highlighted the incredible opportunity in the year ahead for partners focused on selling business solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics.

“Microsoft brings together technologies in a way that no other company can match,” Tatarinov said. “Microsoft Dynamics takes full advantage of the amazing innovations Microsoft is delivering, and we’re actively supporting our partners in developing and delivering a complete, modern, flexible and cloud-based business solution to grow their businesses. There’s never been a better moment to be a Microsoft Dynamics partner.”

With a renewed focus on building enterprise partnerships, Microsoft announced new global independent software vendors that are choosing or extending their solutions across Microsoft Dynamics. Companies such as Campus Management Corp., Cenium Inc., Cincom Systems Inc., PROS Pricing and Technosoft that are industry leaders in their markets are embracing the Microsoft Dynamics solutions to expand their offerings and in some cases as the core foundation on which to build their unique industry-focused solutions. For instance, global hospitality and hotel solution organization Cenium is extending its Microsoft Dynamics-based business offerings in areas such as property management, procurement, human resources and point of sale; and Campus Management, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for higher education, is planning to expand global reach by leveraging Microsoft Dynamics AX and providing institutions of any size or complexity more choices when it comes to student information systems and enterprise resource planning solutions.

Other keynotes included the following news and momentum updates from Microsoft senior executives:

• Thom Gruhler, corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing, took the stage to demo Windows Phone 8 and highlight that Windows Phone is now a true extension of the Windows that 1 billion users worldwide know and use today.

• Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector, provided an overview of Microsoft’s National Plan and citizenship efforts, including empowering youth and driving societal change through the proliferation of Microsoft technology.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.