Sponsors

The partners that make it possible

We thank the following sponsors of the Imagine Cup for their generosity and dedication to helping the world’s brightest technology students achieve their potential.

Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/.
BT

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc’s revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.

For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt.
Microsoft XNA Team

XNA Game Studio 2.0 enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create videogames for Windows and Xbox 360™ using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on .NET. Combined with an active membership in the XNA Creators Club (available from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace), you can also create, debug, and play games on your Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft Interoperability Team

Interoperability enables innovation and opportunity. Job market success comes easily to those who can recognize the opportunity for a mixed-technology solution and effectively leverage the interoperability of Microsoft products. Bright minds are constantly developing solutions that enable new interoperability scenarios, such as playing MP3, AAC, and WMA music together, or mashing up new cross-platform applications and services on the Internet.
For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/interop/.
Microsoft Windows Live Services

The Windows Live platform of Web services provides a platform that lets your customer share information and content to create vibrant online communities and social networking spaces. This will enable partners to extend their existing applications using global, industry-leading Web services or build new Web applications that leverage Microsoft core infrastructure and Web services platform. The central focus of this powerful new platform is built around four simple ideas: Build community-driven applications; enable users to store and access information from anywhere, on any device; communicate and build connection; and maintain trust. For more information and to download SDKs, visit dev.live.com.
Microsoft Accessible Technology Team

Accessibility makes it easier for anyone to see, hear, and use a computer, and to customize their computing environment according to their own preferences, needs, and abilities. For many people, accessibility is what makes computer use possible. At Microsoft, our mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. We consider our mission statement a promise to our customers. We deliver on that promise by striving to create technology that is accessible to everyone—including people who experience the world in different ways because of impairments and disabilities.
For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/enable/microsoft/mission.aspx.

Microsoft Unlimited Potential

For more than 5 billion people, the opportunity to learn, connect, create, and succeed remains elusive. Several barriers stand in the way of effectively reaching these underserved communities, including environmental or infrastructural obstacles, localization issues, the need for personalized solutions, and the prohibitive cost of technology. To better serve these people, Microsoft Unlimited Potential combines advanced technologies and strong partnerships with governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and technology and service partners. Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world's economic pyramid-the next 5 billion people.

In the short term, Unlimited Potential aims to reach the next 1 billion people by 2015 by exploring solutions in three key interrelated areas. Each is crucial to developing sustained economic opportunity:
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Transforming education
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Fostering local innovation
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Enabling jobs and opportunities

In these three areas, Microsoft Unlimited Potential can create the greatest possible impact in building a virtuous cycle of sustained social and economic development. This cycle drives communities; helps build connections to form new communities; is fueled by local and global partnerships; and, most importantly, ultimately becomes locally sustainable. Sustainability is a key indicator of effective programs and activities, and is our long-term measure of success. To learn more, visit the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Web site.
Microsoft Learning

Microsoft Learning builds innovative training products that enable you to make the most of your investment in Microsoft products and technologies. Microsoft Learning offers a diverse range of programs that includes Microsoft training and certification, Microsoft Press books, instructor-led training, skills assessments, and e-learning solutions. From utilizing cutting edge technology to advancing world-class training, Microsoft Learning provides the tools to help you stand out in whatever field you choose.
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