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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
Urdu Language Interface Pack for Windows 7 is now available!
If you like using Windows 7 in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan then you can download the latest Windows 7 Language Interface Pack now from Microsoft Download Center. With Language Interface Pack (LIP) package, desktop users can experience the Microsoft fastest selling operating system in their native language.
Please note that the Urdu Windows 7 Language Interface Pack can only be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7 and is only available for 32-bit systems.
Oman – KalSoft L.L.C. awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year
KalSoft L.L.C. has been awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Oman. 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.
KalSoft is a well-known name in the IT Industry that has been synonymous with excellence and agility. Established in 1999 it has evolved within a short span of time to bring dramatic change in the market arena through its specialized range of products and services. KalSoft has the dexterity to provide the best IT solutions that allow businesses to gain automation and control of their work processes by the use of their numerous solutions and products.
It has not only focused on the local market but has spread its wings to gain business in the international market as well. It has paved a pathway for itself and is currently operating internationally with adirect presence in Pakistan, UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia. KalSoft along with its strategic partners provides an incomparable degree of domain expertise with a results-oriented attitude. It presents business value with the use of IT and continuous Research and Development to attain an organization’s trust and reliability with innovative and dynamic products and solutions to support them in the increase of their competitive advantage and return on investment.
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:
Pakistan – “How we build applications in Industry” event by DevNext
Guest Post : This post is written by Adil Ahmed Mughal, User Group Leader - DevNext
DevNext organized another event, this time at Usman Institute of Technology (UIT), on “How we build web applications in Industry” on 14th April, 2010. The topic was presented by Adil Mughal. If you attended the event, please take out few minutes to fill the feedback form.
The objective behind the session was to help students in understanding how the web applications are build professionally in the industry and what are the issues in traditional simple approach what we follow in academic projects.
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
Pakistan – “Web Programming Concepts with ASP.NET” event by DevNext
Guest Post : This post is written by Adil Ahmed Mughal, User Group Leader -DevNext
We are excited to share with you that DevNext volunteers at NED University organized a session on “Web Programming Concepts using ASP.NET” on 3rd April, 2010. If you attended the event, please take out few minutes to fill the feedback form.
The event was exclusively for NED Students and focused on understanding on how web works and what is going on behind the scene when you create a web page and call it with browser. In this regard, we invited two speakers from Industry
- Adil Ahmed Mughal - who works at Telenor and is also DevNext user group leader.
- Namrah Arif - who works at folio3 and a graduate of NED University.
We were pleased to see participation from the NED students. Even though the room was full, some of the students attended the event by sitting on the floor. We really appreciate your interest and that really boost us in organizing community events. The session agenda was divided in two parts. First, the web programming fundamentals and Second, ASP.NET.
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!
“Windows 7 for Geeks” event by Emerging .NET Devs
Emerging .NET Devs recently organized a house full event on “Windows 7 for Geeks” at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi, Pakistan. The event primarily focused on user experience and why it is important for your application to utilize capabilities of Windows 7 using API etc. Some cool multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7 including letter recognition, zoom in and out was also demonstrated at the event. The overall agenda of the event was:
- Windows 7 Intro and The New Efficiency
- Windows 7 Features
- Windows 7 Touch Demo
- Programming Windows 7
Explore Pakistan with Internet Explorer and win Exciting Prizes!
Microsoft Pakistan launched an exiciting competition on “Pakistan Day” by the help of which you can win exciting prizes like Netbook, T-Shirts , Bags etc. All you have to do is to Download Internet Explorer 8 and Participate in the Quiz to answer questions related to Pakistan such as historical places, information regarding Pakistan sports teams, festival that takes place, Pakistani singers etc.
If you are having trouble finding the answer, you can use Bing right there to find your answer. So, what are you waiting for? participate today and register using the Referral Code 1930.
Microsoft Office 2010 Launched for Partners in Pakistan
Microsoft Pakistan recently organized three back to back events in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad to launch Office 2010/Wave 14 for partners in Pakistan. More than 250 representatives from top partners attended these events and were briefed on the upcoming product portfolio which includes Exchange 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 & Visio 2010. Prominent speakers during the events were:
- Shahzad Khan – Channel Lead, Microsoft Pakistan
- Ihsan Anabtawi – IW Business Group Lead, Microsoft NEPA
- Zafar Ul-Islam – Enterprise Technology Strategist, Microsoft Pakistan
- Salma Nisar – Technology Specialist, Microsoft Pakistan
Pakistan – “Microsoft Web Days” in Pictures
Microsoft Pakistan recently hosted “Microsoft Web Days” in collaboration with P@SHA at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi. Microsoft Web Days is an exclusive get together of all Web Development, Designing and Hosting companies in Karachi with the objective to interact with Microsoft executives and gain an insight on Microsoft initiatives for web community. Launch of Microsoft WebsiteSpark is also planned on the same day. Following speakers presented during the event.
- Naveed Bajwa – Developer & Platform Group Manager, Microsoft Pakistan
- Ziaullah Khan – Microsoft MVP
- Jibran Jamshad – Technology Consultant, Microsoft Innovation Center
- Wajahat Abbas – Microsoft MVP
- Aleem Bawany – General Manager, Online Strategy and Development, Express News
- Jehan Ara – President Pakistan Software Houses Association
Pakistan – Microsoft “Bloggers Day” in Pictures
Microsoft Pakistan recently organized a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi. This event was especially organized for the bloggers community of Pakistan. Here are some pictures from the event.
Microsoft Pakistan Bloggers Day
Microsoft Pakistan is organizing a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This event will be organized especially for the bloggers community of Pakistan by Microsoft. This event will help you in developing a much better understanding of the real world applications for Windows 7 & Internet Explorer 8. Bloggers Day will also be an excellent opportunity to network with other Fellow Bloggers from Industry & the Microsoft Team Members. Following are the event details:
- Date – January 23rd 2010
- Time - 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Location - Microsoft Innovation Center, 1st Floor – FAST National University of Computer and Emerging, Sciences (City Campus), 22-G Block, 6 P.E.C.H.S Karachi.
“SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques” by Saifullah Shafiq, SharePoint MVP
Saifullah Shafiq, SharePoint MVP has published a new SharePoint book called “SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques“. He have been writing technical programming articles/tutorials since 1999. His technical articles have been published on 62 different programming related web sites. He is also the founder of SharePoint Pakistan User Group, which is the first and only SharePoint related user community in Pakistan. Click here to view MicrosoftFeed interview with Saifullah.
SharePoint is a powerful collaboration platform. It gives users power to implement content management and search solutions. It helps in information sharing. SharePoint can be used to create sites quickly, sites that can provide complex business intelligence and records management solutions. This book is a recipe book that gives you ready-to-use recipes to implement complex solutions in your organization. It contains full length articles as well as small tips that will come in handy at some point during your development cycle. SharePoint learning curve is steep; books like these enable you to learn SharePoint quickly. Book contains tons of information on InfoPath. Remember, using InfoPath with SharePoint gives you a powerful platform to create business applications. You can create electronic forms easily with InfoPath and publish them in SharePoint where users from across the organization can easily access them. Browser-enabled forms is another excellent feature that InfoPath 2007 provides. Not only InfoPath but SharePoint integrates well with the Office 2007 suite. The book shows you how you can use products like Groove and OneNote with SharePoint. It also gives you examples on how to use it with Access.
You will find lots of walkthrough exercises in this book that will help you get up to speed with topics like web services, web service deployment and consuming web services. More information about this book is available at http://sharepoint2007tips.com. Users can download free sample chapters from the book site. Book is available in both paperback and ebook editions.
