Partners and Certification

ISV/Software Solutions Competency
This site is intended for organizations that are developing packaged software products. The ISV/Software Solutions Competency site focuses on how you can work with Microsoft as an ISV, includes resources to help you build your business, and technical resources to help you build your software products. You can also participate in the business focused community including a peer-to-peer business newsgroup, business-focused webcasts, chats, and sign up for the monthly Microsoft Partners Newsletter, ISV Edition.   

Microsoft for Partners Web Site
The Microsoft for Partners Web site supports the technical readiness, marketing and business information needs of our valued partners. Use this site to gain easy access to a wide array of resources to support your solutions and services and help increase your market opportunities.   

Microsoft Regional Director Program
Regional Directors are independent developers and architects, volunteers chosen for their leadership in their local technology circles, whose primary purpose is to share information about Microsoft technologies with their developer communities and to provide feedback from developers. Microsoft Regional Directors have gained developers' trust by providing an objective viewpoint and talking with developers in their own language. Regional Directors are not Microsoft employees, so they tend to be very open about our products, both good and bad.   

Microsoft Service Providers
If you are a service provider, the Microsoft Service Providers site is your one-stop resource for the latest information about Microsoft technologies and solutions specifically for service providers and the telecommunications industry. We have the solutions and technology answers your business needs to succeed in this competitive market.   

Certified for Windows Program
The Certified for Windows (CfW) program allows you to provide your customers with the highest level of assurance that your applications will perform well when deployed on Windows Server operating systems. Visit the CfW site to find out the specific program requirements.   

Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP)
The Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program is designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISV's), Systems Integrators (SI's), academic institutions, corporations and developers interested in integrating tools, components, and languages into the Visual Studio .NET IDE.