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Raya Distribution wins Best Microsoft Distribution Partner Award in Egypt
Raya Distribution has been named by Microsoft Egypt as the “Best Distribution Partner” in Egypt for the distribution of Microsoft products and services. The award comes in recognition of Raya Distribution’s focus, professionalism and dedication in reaching the market and tapping into new business opportunities for Microsoft’s business.
Raya Distribution won this award based on its performance in 2009. This included 31% overall market share with 66% growth from 2008 To 2009.
“Raya Distribution maintains having top notch capabilities in the market, reflected in its ability to deliver outstanding customer service and its commitment in providing value added distribution services to its clients,” commented Ayman El Halaby, CEO Raya Trade.
MEA MVPs Announced – July 2010
The Microsoft MVP Program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Microsoft MVPs are recognized for both their demonstrated practical expertise and willingness to share their experience with peers in Microsoft technical communities.
Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognizes the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year. The MVP list includes all Microsoft technologies, divided by area of interest. This year’s new and renewing MVPs for South Asia region include:
Egypt
- Mina Nagy – Communications Server
- Hisham Hassan – Dynamics GP
Egypt – Link Development awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year
Link Development has been awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Egypt. The Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award recognizes partners at the country level that have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to our mutual customers over the past year. This award showed effective engagement with their local Microsoft office, delivered customer satisfaction, showed innovation, won new customers, and created business impact.
LINK Development is a leading regional software development company and is a subsidiary of Egypt’s number one internet service and solutions provider LINKdotNET and Orascom Telecom Holding Company.
Combining software development with creative design skills, LINK Development provides a unique offering that delivers complete e-business solutions. LINK Development has built an unparalleled track record of award-winning projects for governments, leading local companies and large multinationals in the Middle East and Europe since its inception over a decade ago.
Microsoft in Cooperation with MSN Arabia and NISSAN Motor Egypt Announce ‘Messenger on the Go’ Online Competition
Microsoft, the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential, MSN Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s premier bilingual entertainment and information portal, along with Nissan Motor Egypt announced the launch of ‘Messenger on the Go‘, a nine week interactive online competition for all Windows Live users, including Hotmail and MSN account holders.
Messenger on the GO offers a series of activities on a dedicated competition page, where participants sign in using their Hotmail account. Participants will be shown a three dimensional virtual Nissan Tiida car which they must fill with as many friends as possible in order to win a real customized 2010 sedan Nissan Tiida Messenger Edition. The winner will be the person with the highest number of friends inside the virtual Car.
Meet 50+ Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals
The Microsoft MVP Program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Microsoft MVPs are recognized for both their demonstrated practical expertise and willingness to share their experience with peers in Microsoft technical communities.
Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognizes the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year. Here are some of the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals interviewed by us:
Meet Ayman Mohammed El-Hattab : SharePoint Server MVP from Egypt
Tell us who you are?
I am Ayman Mohammed El-Hattab, SharePoint Server MVP from Egypt living in Cairo. I graduated from Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University in 2006. After graduation, I worked for two of the largest software firms in the Middle East using Microsoft Web Technologies especially SharePoint. I am currently working as an independent consultant providing SharePoint consultancy and training for many Egyptian and Arab clients.
I am the co-founder of www.sharepoint4arabs.com, the first web site dedicated for teaching the Arab speaking world all about SharePoint 2007 and 2010 by providing localized content in the form of screencasts, How- Do-I’s , technical articles and more. I have also sponsored and organized Live Online SharePoint Saturday Arabia a couple of weeks ago which was a huge success.
I’m also one of the leaders of Egypt SharePoint User Group, regular speaker at online and offline conferences and events, contributing author on SharePoint 2010 Unleashed book which will be released In June 2010 , active participant at MSDN Forums and currently preparing for the launch of EgyGeeks, the first online .NET/SharePoint User Group in Egypt.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I am a newbie 
I was recognized as MVP in April 2010. Oh, and it wasn’t April fool !
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I am passionate about Microsoft technologies, the easiest ways to keep up with the latest technologies are RSS Feeds and twitter search. Setting up a twitter search and keeping an eye on what people say is always a key. Also being active in the online and offline communities especially user groups and MSDN forums is extremely essential to catch up the latest headline.
MEA MVPs Announced – April 2010
The Microsoft MVP Program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Microsoft MVPs are recognized for both their demonstrated practical expertise and willingness to share their experience with peers in Microsoft technical communities.
Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognizes the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year. The MVP list includes all Microsoft technologies, divided by country. This year’s new and renewing MVPs for MEA region includes:
Algeria
- Wissem Habboub – SQL Server
Egypt
- Ahmed Bahaa Mohamed Farid – Team System
- Mahmoud Amin Ismail – Exchange Server
- Mohamed Zaki – SharePoint Server
- Shady Khorshed – SharePoint Server
- Sherif Talaat – PowerShell
- Yasser Makram – Expression Blend
- Ayman El Hattab – SharePoint Server
IT is The Best Job in the World: Win trip to Mauritius
Microsoft Middle East and Africa proudly claims that “IT’s The Best Job in the World” proving this by offering a prize to truly IT people – free trip to Mauritius Island. Any IT person can join!
You may have seen it on TV – some people really think that sitting on a boring island and blogging about clouds going by is “the best job in the world” (not to mention the risk of being bitten by a jelly fish).
Here at Microsoft however, we are absolutely sure that IT is the best job in the world. And to prove that, we are organizing a boring 3-day seminar on an IT-related topic. But, we can bet that IT people attending this seminar will be really, really thrilled. Why? Because IT is “the best job in the world!” Oh, and did I forget to mention that the seminar will take place this May on the island of Mauritius! Flights and hotels will be arranged by Microsoft for truly IT people.
So, if you are an IT specialist (doesn’t matter if you do development or administration, Microsoft, Linux, Cisco, PHP or Silverlight) you are invited!
Microsoft to expand its Research and Development footprint in the Middle East
Microsoft plans to expand its research and development (R&D) footprint in the Middle East beyond its current location in Egypt. This is as part of the company’s global strategy to expand its research facilities away from the central base in California. Transliteration tools are currently being developed at the region’s only R&D centre in Cairo.
“At Microsoft we are still trying to figure out what else can be done at the Cairo lab and at the same time want to set up presence elsewhere to collect talent from across the world,” said S Somasegar, Senior Vice-President, Developer Division. “Cairo was set up some time back but we want to do more as we need to extend product development beyond Redmond in California. There are centres set up and they will be expanded in line with the company’s R&D vision,” he said.
Egypt – Cairo CodeCamp 2010 in Pictures
DotNetWork recently organized Cairo CodeCamp. It was a two days conference which focused on software technologies, with 20+ speakers and 40+ different sessions on various tracks. It was the largest developer event in Egypt. Event was hosted at The German University in Cairo on 27th and 28th of February 2010 on its campus in New Cairo. Click here for complete details.
Cairo CodeCamp 2010
After the success of CodeCamp’09 which was dotnetwork’s first biggest event with over 800+ attendees, attending 18 sessions, presented by 3 international and 6 domestic speakers on 2 consecutive days. DotNetWork is now organizing it once again this year.
Cairo CodeCamp is a two days conference focuses on software technologies, with 20+ speakers and 40+ different sessions on various tracks will satisfy your technology hunger. It will be the largest developer event in Egypt. Event will be hosted at The German University in Cairo on 27th and 28th of February 2010 at its campus in New Cairo. Keynote speaker will be Scott Hanselman who will rock the stage with a lab around C# 4.0. Check out the complete list of speakers & agenda.
Meet Mina Nagy – Unified Communications MVP from Egypt
Tell us who you are?
I am proud to be one of the few Egyptian Microsoft MVPs. I am a believer that “Nothing is Impossible” and that the “Sky is the limit”, and that with the right attitude, knowledge and tools/ technology, anything is achievable. I have been working at LINK Development since 2001 where I started as a PC Support Engineer was promoted to System Engineer then Internal Infrastructure Lead and finally, I am now the Unified Communications Technical Team Lead for our Professional Services division, Handling all external projects and implementations.
My main area of expertise is Unified Communications, a domain I have been focusing on for the past 3 years. I love my Country as well as Soccer very much and that makes me proud of our Egyptian team who won the African cup for the last 3 times and totally for 7 times. We now rank among the top 10 in the World ranking right after England
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I earned the 2009 Microsoft MVP Award in Unified Communications domain and i am also the 2009 Award Winner of Microsoft Virtual TSP (Technology Solution Professional) Program, a program to prepare Tiger trained partners to deliver same level of quality as a Microsoft HQ TSP.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I always have my lab with me on the notebook on Hyper-v. Since I am also the technical team lead at LINK Development, I try to make sure that my team and I are always updated with the latest in Unified Communications. As part of the TAP program “Technical Adaptation Program “, we get “hands on experience” on the latest Microsoft software in beta release
Meet Sherif Talaat – PowerShell MVP from Egypt
Tell us who you are?
My name is Sherif Talaat, I’m a Senior System Engineer since 2005. I’m PowerShell MVP and Certified MCSE Server 2003, and MCTS Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, and Windows Server 2008.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got my first MVP award in April 2009.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Attending technical conferences regularly, read books, following up other blogs, and meetings with peers in technology.
What does being an MVP mean to you?
This award came to me as prove that knowledge sharing is something very important and I’m adding kind of value to technical community. Also, it gave me the push toward learning more to share more.
What do you do when you are not building software’s?
Reading, playing music, and testing the new software’s
SharePoint 2010 TechDay!
Egypt SharePoint User Group and .NetWork User Group recently organized SharePoint 2010 TechDay at Dar El Deyafa, Ain Shams University. TechDays is a new type of user group gathering where it consists of 2+ sessions talking about a specific technology from the basic to advanced levels going in sequence to expose audience to different areas of that technology.
Meet Mohamed Zaki – SharePoint MVP from Egypt
Tell us who you are?
My name is Mohamed Zaki, I’m Technology Manager working for LINKdotNET; have 10 years experience in IT field, my current role is to take care of the Technologies and Architecture of our solutions to ensure better IT and business alignment; I’m Sharepoint MVP
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
Awarded with MVP since April 2006
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Following up regularly on my fellow bloggers, subscribing to technology newsletters, chatting with technology leaders about their new coming products and tools
What does being an MVP mean to you?
Being MVP is a great opportunity to me that helping me doing my best to help and have value added in the development communities.
What do you do when you are not building software’s?
Reading and flying … I mean simulators don’t go so far
If you could ask Steve Ballmer one question about Microsoft, what would it be?
What are Microsoft plans regarding open source software ?
