Last year, Howard Lo, Regional Manager (APAC), MVP Award Program, launched Ultimate Windows Tweaker - developed by an MVP, Ramesh Kumar, and released by another MVP, Anand Khanse, on his popular Windows portal - at the South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 at Goa, India.
After enormous success of the utility and favorable reviews all across, they are back with Ultimate Windows Tweaker v2.0.
UWT is a freeware utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 and Windows Vista. With judicious tweaking, it promises to make your system faster, more stable, and more secure.
For more details about the improvements and to download the utility, click here.
Like the last year, Windows Desktop Experience MVP, Anand Khanse is organizing the Best Windows Website Contest 2009 on his Windows portal, The Windows Club, to discover and to recognize some of the best Windows bloggers and website owners.
The 10 best websites will be picked up by a panel of 10 Judges, comprising of authors, technology columnists, Microsoft employees, and few other MVPs, and put to vote by the community. The websites will be judged on content, quality, originality, continuity, presentation, and overall impression.
The winners and early entries stand to win licenses of a whole range of software. Winning apart, this contest would provide recognition and a great opportunity for bloggers to expose and showcase their websites. Do check out what the top 3 winners of the last year, have to say about this contest.
Vasudev G, an MVP from India is much loved by the Windows product team, we reckon. After winning lot of goodies and a netbook for sharing feedback on Windows 7, he recently received few more as a thank-you gift from the Windows 7 Starter Team. These were given to the the participants for their contributions and their effort to help beta test the Windows 7 Starter Edition.
This time around, Vasudev has received Windows 7 branded notepad and a racket-ball game.
Microsoft MVPs are announced every quarter, though the award is valid for an year, given for the contributions of the individual to technical communities over the past year.
We are extremely happy to welcome the following new MVPs amongst our midst:
Pavan Paruchuri - Consumer Security Subodh Sohoni - Team System Saurabh Teotia - Excel Shoban Kumar - Client App Dev Shivprasad Koirala - ASP/ASP.NET Suresh Ramani - Small Business Server Rajiv Vishwa - Developer Security Sateesh Arveti - Visual C# Manan Kakkar - Windows Desktop Experience Meetu Choudhary - ASP/ASP.NET Nitin Gupta - Exchange Server Ashic Mahtab - ASP/ASP.NET Arjun Paudel - Visual Basic
We are also extremely happy to welcome back the following three MVP Alumni amongst us:
RavicKumar M – Team System Niraj Bhatt – Connected System Developer Satheesh Babu – ASP.NET
Hope to see you further contribute to communities, and make a difference.
Vishal Gupta, a Windows Desktop Experience MVP from India, and owner of one of the popular Windows tips and tricks blog – AskVG, has released and app to automatically create bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 on your computer without an optical drive.
The portable utility has been created by one of AskVG readers, and also works good for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The application has also been featured on Microsoft’s Channel 10, a consumer-focused community.
Click here to read the specifics of he utility and download the same.
Shantanu Kaushik, our staple Webcast MVP, is conducting a comprehensive series of Webcasts on virtualization - Virtualization 101 – in August 2009. The series would cover desktop, server, and application virtualization, and also include virtualization management.
All times above are India Standard Time (+5:30 GMT).