Microsoft student partner

The Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) are a gathering of students (Colleges, Universités, Universities) who have an interest pushed for new technologies, and which do not hesitate to share their knowledge with the other students, in particular on technologies Microsoft.

With the 21 April 2007, they were a world total of 1445, distributed in 63 countries.

History

The program " Microsoft Student Partner" is an evolution of the program Microsoft Valuable Students (MVS). One will be able to quote for information the professional program: Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP), although this last have, contrary to the program MSP which joins together the impassioned various ones, a strong orientation towards competence and technical specializations.

Definition

" Microsoft Student Partner" indicate the privileged relation which is created between an impassioned student of new technologies and Microsoft. Program MSP rewards for the students having a control or an exceptional implication in the products and Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft their offer:

a greater proximity with the Microsoft teams;
a help with the use of the tools and Microsoft technologies;
a recognition near the professionals close to Microsoft;
a recognition near a community of impassioned.

Independence

The MSP are nominated according to their participations passed, Microsoft does not await anything them. Microsoft asks only for one courteous and respectful behavior.

The title of MSP and the benefit associated by no means engage with any participation in the future (but then the place of the student in the program can be discussed), nor with any other initiative of Microsoft. The participation in any other initiative of Microsoft remains on a voluntary basis. It can stop constantly.

The only obligation to which must subscribe the MSP is the signature of a clause relating to the confidential informations to which they could have access within the framework of their nomination.

Participation in the events

The role of the MSP is ambiguous, with horse between a role of evangelists of technologies and a force of long-lived criticism of last technologies of the firm which they have time and curiosity to test. The MSP have a tendency natural to be filled with enthusiasm for launchings of products of which they knew all the stages of the development thanks to the program or by their frequentation of the Microsoft communities.

Some figures on the participation of the MSP in the launching of Office and Windows Vista in France in 2006/2007:

87 dedicated conferences and stands organized Office/Vista
21 Install Left
17 formations animated by the MSP
42 blogs to share their experiments
20 projects around Office and of Vista

External bond

Official site Testimonys of Microsoft Student Partners

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