Each year Microsoft holds a conference for their partners from around the world. This year's conference was held in New Orleans, LA and was attended by approximately 6,000 partners and hundreds of Microsoft staff. Open Text had a number of staff in attendance and was extremely well represented throughout the show.

Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President launched the conference with her keynote speech along with those of Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division and Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Business Division. Open Text was featured in a video on Office 2010 which was filmed during our participation in the Office Technology Adoption Program (TAP) training recently in Seattle. Microsoft provided demonstrations of the coming Office 2010 and Windows 7 releases. The second day began with keynote presentations from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools business. Open Text was featured in discussion and a keynote video on our early adoption of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Open Text was also named as a finalist in two award categories. There are a number of awards given out each year at WPC. Each category receives thousands of applications and they are judged by a variety of Microsoft staff around the world. Open Text was one of the two finalists in two categories. The first is Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year. In 2006 Open Text received the Global ISV of the Year award, and achieving finalist designation in 2009 is a strong recognition of all the work that Open Text and Microsoft are doing together. The second award was the Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management and Forms Development Partner of the Year where Open Text received finalist designation for our Open Text Legal Information Management for SharePoint solution. This application brings together the strengths of Open Text Content Lifecycle Management with the collaborative and end-user abilities of Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 to provide a complete application for use in Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments.

During the conference we met with many Microsoft executives and teams from both Microsoft Corporate and Regional organizations. We met with several current and future partners for Open Text. There was a tremendous amount of information shared, knowledge gained and relationships formed and strengthened throughout the conference.

Aside from the formal presentations, we filmed some publicly posted video clips. Look for Open Text speaking on the 2010 Office wave, and Windows Azure on Microsoft's Presspass site: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/videoGallery.aspx.