Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. MVPs reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies.

MVPs tend to be early adopters of new technology and actively communicate their experiences to millions of other technology users. Through their extensive community activity, MVPs help others solve problems and discover new capabilities, helping people get the maximum value from their technology.

Each year, the technical community's best and brightest are awarded as Microsoft MVPs. You can learn more about the MVP Award and individual MVPs, by visiting the following Web sites:

• MVP Overview: Learn about the important roles that Microsoft MVPs play in technical communities.
• MVP Award: Understand the mission of the MVP Award and the recipient selection process. You will also find a summary of the benefits of the MVP Award.
• Relationship Services and Technical Resources: Read about the different opportunities that MVPs have to both interact with Microsoft employees, other MVPs, and their peers, and to share knowledge about Microsoft products and related technologies.
• MVP Insider: Read about a new MVP recipient each month. Find out what inspires MVPs, which books they are reading, and what they would do with unlimited bandwidth.
• MVP Press: Find links to press coverage of MVPs and the MVP Award.
• Microsoft Awardee Directory: View the profiles and areas of expertise of MVP awardees who choose to share their profiles.
• Frequently Asked Questions: Learn more details about the MVP Award and MVP awardees.