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'Microsoft on the Issues: Africa' will focus on key priorities in the region, including topics such as the Local Language Programme, Intellectual Property, education and skills development as well as crucial partnerships with governments across the continent.

London, United Kingdom — July 05, 2010 - Microsoft Africa today announced the launch of the African edition of its 'Microsoft on the Issues' blog. Building on the success of its corporate blog, which has been running since January 2009, 'Microsoft on the Issues: Africa' will provide a platform for discussing how ICT has and will continue to be crucial in helping transform Africa. By investing in technological advancements and the African people themselves, IT will not only continue to provide the necessary skills and knowledge to help society progress, but can actually become the driving force to help the continent advance to an even higher level of development, as a truly active participant in the global community.

Upcoming release delivers “The Power of Productivity” for businesses and introduces the Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace for on-demand and on-premises solutions.

WASHINGTON — July 12, 2010 — Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Corp. showcased new capabilities that are coming in its next-generation customer relationship management (CRM) solution. The highly anticipated Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 — formerly code-named “CRM5” — will be publicly available as a beta release in September 2010, beginning with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Microsoft also announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be available in 40 markets and 41 languages by the end of 2010. In addition to 32 markets announced in April, the following eight markets are slated to be covered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Cyprus, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will deliver “The Power of Productivity” through familiar, intelligent and connected experiences for people inside and outside an organization. This release will also enable partners, including independent software vendors, global system integrators and value-added resellers, to quickly create, package and distribute Microsoft Dynamics CRM extensions and custom solutions.

A preponderance of managers and supervisors are overly familiar with long sighs and disheartened groans from their employees when they introduce yet another organizational change or a new initiative. And in the aftershock of a devastating recession, the sighs and groans are turning into fear. While supervisors do not have the authority to reject or the power to deflect organizational change, they do have the opportunity (and, we believe, the specific responsibility) to clearly and truthfully communicate the reasons for change.