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How to become a Windows Insider MVP

AnandKhanse@TWC — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:20:20 +0000

Some time back, Microsoft announced the launch of its Windows Insider MVP Program. There was a significant restructuring for the Microsoft MVP Program announced earlier, where it was stated that the existing Microsoft MVP Program would be focused on Developers and IT Professionals. It was also stated that Consumer MVP award categories would be directly […]

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Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2020 not taking place in Seattle due to COVID-19 virus outbreak

AnandKhanse@TWC — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 04:06:15 +0000

Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2020 is not taking place in the Seattle area this year due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The MVP Global summit 2020 was supposed to take place between March 16 – March 19. However, Microsoft has decided to host an online-only, virtual event instead. Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2020 canceled The MVP […]

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Microsoft announces the retirement of MVP Mentor Program

AnandKhanse@TWC — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:30:14 +0000

Microsoft has now decided to discontinue the MVP Mentor program, that helped connect students with Microsoft MVPs. The MVP Mentor Program was a relatively new program from Microsoft that helped connect students who want to learn more about Microsoft technologies with Microsoft MVPs. Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) awards have been extremely useful when it […]

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Meet Microsoft’s first Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

AnandKhanse@TWC — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:50 +0000

Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of the MVP Award program. With the MVP Summit underway, currently in Bellevue & Redmond, Microsoft has found it fit to talk about the first MVP Awardee. Calvin Hsia, a developer who lived in Hawaii, wrote a program that could download, organize and tabulate hundreds of daily forum messages on […]

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Microsoft Launches Mentorship Program In Africa

ShiwangiPeswani@TWC — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:25:00 +0000

Microsoft today unveiled its mentorship program to be conducted by software developers in Kenya – and Africa in general, especially for the ICT incubation hubs and schools across the country. Microsoft’s Africa Apps team will lead the mentorship program which includes a group of Developer Platform Evangelists. All the mentors included in the team are […]

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Celebrating 20 years of the Microsoft MVP Award program

AnandKhanse@TWC — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:54:46 +0000

In early days, when no social networking tools existed, there were as few as 34 original MVPs. The number now exceeds up to 4000. Those were the days when experts in Microsoft technology provided their assistance not through Tweets or Facebook comments, but via much dedicated CompuServe forums. Today, things have changed! Calvin Hsia, developer […]

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Windows Live MVPs moved to newly created Windows Consumer Apps expertise

VasudevG@TWC — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:59:35 +0000

We have been seeing that the Windows Live branding is under transition and is being phased out as a separate brand, what with many of the Windows Live software, services and apps like SkyDrive, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker have dropped the ‘Live’ branding from their names. As Microsoft had said earlier: Windows Live is reimagined. […]

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Microsoft Answers gets rebranded as Microsoft Community – with exciting updates!

VasudevG@TWC — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:59:00 +0000

Microsoft Answers, the community service and support site for various Microsoft products gets a new branding along with lots of exciting updates. The site name has been changed from Microsoft Answers to Microsoft Community. The URL for the site will however remain the same. The new revamped site has gone live just a few hours […]

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Microsoft introduces the MVP Student Mentor Program for MSPs

AnandKhanse@TWC — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:26:30 +0000

This is one fine new initiative that Microsoft has introduced! MVPs will now have the option to ‘officially’ associate with and mentor up to two MSPs, as a part of the MVP Student Mentor Program. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Program recognizes individuals from around the world, who freely share their knowledge and real-world expertise with others […]

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Australia Recognises Its First Visually Impaired MVP

AnandKhanse@TWC — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:58:08 +0000

MVP Kenny Johar was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP Award, for his contributions towards Internet Explorer. He has carved out a successful IT career by helping to make technology, more accessible to Australia’s visually impaired. Kenny was diagnosed with problems to his eyesight during the final years of high school, and had intended to follow […]

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