When Howard Lo, Regional Manager (APAC), MVP Award Program, launched Ultimate Windows Tweaker at the South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 at Goa, India last year, little did Anand or Ramesh had imagined, the success it would turn out to be.
UWT has been developed by an MVP, Ramesh Kumar, and has been released by another MVP, Anand Khanse, on his popular portal on all things Windows – WinVistaClub.
The tweak utility has been well-rated across the Web, and featured on popular sites like PC World, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, DownloadSquad, and Channel 10. No wonder it sees about 2000 downloads everyday from the homepage itself (not to mention other download sites and file-shares).
The latest version of UWT has over 150 tweaks, yet just a 450 KB file, for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It needs no installation, and the portable application can be run directly from your USB drive. DownloadSquad also mentions that the utility works good for Windows 7 beta as well.
Karen, Paulette, and Nestor have sent us some wonderful pictures of how things are shaping up at Microsoft campus for the MVP Global Summit 2009. The signage is all over the place, and so is the buzz.
Follow the news and updates on the MVP Summit blog and on Twitter.
Kazi Manzur Rashid, an ASP.NET MVP from Bangladesh, has recently launched DotNetShoutout. DotNetShoutout is a place where you can find the latest Microsoft .NET stories to increase your skills and share your opinions.
DotNetShoutout is a Web 2.0 style social news site, similar to Digg, for .NET developers running on an open-source project KiGG, which was started by Kazi himself to get familiar with the new ASP.NET MVC framework. You can read the technical details of the project on Kazi’s blog here.
Introduction to Windows Small Business Server 2008
March 02, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Designed for small businesses, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an affordable, integrated server solution that helps you protect your business data, increase productivity and present a more professional image to customers - giving you the tools you need to help grow your business capacity. Get a first look into the SBS 2008 functionalities in this session.
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Introduction to Windows Essential Business Server 2008
March 04, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 (EBS 2008) is an enterprise-class server solution designed and priced for midsize businesses, integrating management, messaging and security server technologies. By helping to improve IT manageability and reliability, EBS 2008 turns a midsize IT infrastructure into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth. This session gets you sneak peek into the EBS 2008 Server.Add to Calendar
Top Business Benefits of using Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server
March 06, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
In this session we will discuss some of the top business benefits of using Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server:. World Class Messaging Platform. Anti Spam Solution. Push Mail Solution. Share Mail Folders. Company Intranet. Virtual Team Solution. Document Management System. Remote Web Workplace. File & Print Server. Network Fax SolutionAdd to Calendar
Speakers:
Ranjana Jain is an IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft India. In her current role, she works closely with the online IT communities and is passionate about spreading excitement about the latest in the Microsoft Infrastructure field. She conducts regular events and live sessions for the Microsoft SI Partners and online community. In her carrier she has worked as a trainer and consultant for leading corporates in the IT and non-IT field. She is certified as an MCSE NT/2000/2003, MCT, RHCE and a CIW Certified Security Analyst.
Suresh Ramani is the CEO of a Technology Solution provider, Techgyan - Finalist for the Microsoft Small Business Partner of the Year 2007 award. He is the founder president of IAMCP India (West Chapter) and has been SBSC Partner Area Lead since July 2007. Suresh's interest is to be an Evangelist for Comprehensive Mobility Solutions for Small & Midsized Companies. He is passionate about spreading the Mobility message to one and all with focus on Business aspect of technology rather than technical nuts and bolts issues. A special focus area is to enable partnering among various partners of diverse skill sets as this would directly impact the Customer Satisfaction.
Ashish Mathur is a Microsoft Office Excel MVP and is conducting a couple of webcasts on using Excel effectively. He’s done it several times, but always comes back with more to share.
In this series, he shares tips and tricks that are essential for any information worker, and also techniques of doing a scenario analysis to monitor impact of changes in certain inputs on key performance indicators of a business.
Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Excel
February 12, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
Scenario Analysis using Microsoft Excel
February 13, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST
India’s biggest and most active user group, Bangalore .NET User Group – B.NET, organized a Windows 7 day on February 7, 2009 – 7 on 7th where two MVPs- Vic and Vijay Raj conducted 3 hour long session on Windows 7. The session also included demos on accelerometer, touch Sensor, and light sensor. The event saw 30 attendees.
You can find the speakers’ blog posts about the event here and here, and download the slide-deck of the session.