If you have been actively contributing to online or offline technical communities over the past year, here is your chance to get recognized. Nominate yourself for the Microsoft MVP Award - a program that recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

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Last date for MVP Award Nominations is April 18, 2009.

For more information about the MVP Award, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp or send an email at indiamvp@microsoft.com.

Shantanu Kaushik is a Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Dehradun, India and a stock presenter on Windows and Internet Explorer.

He’s presenting a live and interactive series on new features and innovation in Windows 7 which promise to be informative as well as exciting.

Details: http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts

 Windows 7: Faster and Easier

April 20, 2009 |  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

- Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
- Jump Lists
- New ways to work with Windows
- Better device management
- HomeGroup

Windows 7: Work your way

April 23, 2009 |  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

- Faster, more responsive performance
- Extended battery life
- Theme packages reflect your style
- Take control of problems 

 

Windows 7: New possibilities

April 27, 2009 |  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

- Share music and videos
- Windows Touch
- Handwriting recognition additions

South Asia MVP Lead Abhishek Kant interviews SQL Server MVP from Ahmedabad, India - Pinal Dave at the Summit. Pinal maintains a blog dedicated to SQL Server, and has authored over 900 articles.

Niraj Bhatt, a technical architect and an MVP from Bangalore, was a star presenter at the February 2009 edition of Microsoft India's Virtual TechDays- an online event that provides an opportunity to the developer, IT Pro, and designer community to dive deep into the latest offerings from Microsoft.

With an overall rating of 7.68 (on a scale of 1 to 9) for his session- Making WinForms & WPF Work Together, he was rated amongst the Top 5 session presenters and also Top 8 session content. Being recognized as the third best presenter at the event, he also won a INR 5000 worth Croma gift certificate. His content rating was 7.80 and presenter rating was 7.98. Incidentally, Niraj was the only non-Microsoft speaker to achieve top ratings.

MVPs from South Asia at the MVP Global Summit 2009, at Redmond-Seattle.