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Microsoft
Corporation felicitated 33 Indians with its Global Most Valuable
Professional (MVP) Award. The MVP Award was established by Microsoft
almost a decade ago to recognise individuals for their outstanding
contributions in a wide range of community activities. From newsgroup
to top user group, websites and message boards worldwide, MVP status
is awarded to the most active online community “gurus”
for their technical expertise, voluntary willingness to share their
experience and commitment to helping others realise their potential
within Microsoft technical communities.
This
year, the MVP Programme has doubled in size, with nearly 1,300 MVPs
from more than 55 countries representing more than 70 Microsoft
technologies. The growth of the programme, according to Lori Moore,
corporate vice president of product support services and executive
sponsor of the MVP Programme-Microsoft, is a testament to Microsoft’s
worldwide customer connection. “Although the programme has
always been globally focused, the tremendous increase in efforts
and support for technical communities outside of the US, especially
in countries like India, Japan, China, Germany, France and Latin
America reflects the increasing needs of some of our best customers,”
she says.
Today,
online technical communities devoted to one or more Microsoft products
are used by millions of customers worldwide. Each year, Microsoft
looks to these communities—message boards, websites, newsgroups,
and other technical peer to peer communities—for the most outstanding,
active participants providing credible and noteworthy contributions
to a technical community, including their valuable inputs on how
Microsoft’s products could be improved. Much of this feedback
comes during the annual summit Microsoft holds each year on its
Redmond campus for the MVPs and top Microsoft executives, slated
for early next year.
By
far, Microsoft’s largest online community is the Microsoft
public newsgroups with over 11 percent growth in membership and
nearly 1.5 million active community members annually participating
at Microsoft.com or news://ms-news.microsoft.com. There are thousands
of freely available newsgroups covering a wide variety of Microsoft
products and technologies, including more than 250 devoted to developer
topics.
“MVPs
make a significant contribution to our customer and overall community
satisfaction, and we sincerely appreciate their efforts,” said
Dilip Mistry, director-.NET and developer evangelism, Microsoft
Corporation India.
Following
are a few of the Indian Microsoft MVPs for 2003:
Mumbai:
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Akila Manian, Synergetics
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Bipin Joshi, Mastek
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Kunal Cheda, Syntel India
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Manish Mehta, Syntel India
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Mark D’Souza, Sagacious Infotech
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Narayana Rao Surapaneni, Patni Computer Systems
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Nauzad Kapadia, Quartz Systems
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Saurabh Nandu, YesSoftware
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Shyam Pillai
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Sushila Bowalekar, PCS
New
Delhi:
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Suresh Behera, Cyberica Net Technologies
Chennai:
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Aravind Corera, independent software developer
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Anand M, Polaris Software Lab
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Arun Prakash G, Polaris
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M Rajesh, ICICI Infotech
Bangalore:
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Benny Mathew, Thomson Financial Research
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Kashinath, Texas Networks
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Shivani Maheshwari, Saty-am Computer Services
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Shivashanmugam M, technical consultant, Trigent Software
Hyderabad:
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Gurneet Singh, Infosys, Hyderabad
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Pratyusa Manadhata, E Shaw India Software.
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