Each quarter Microsoft awards passionate technical community leaders with the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award recognizing they are top-tier technology influencers and outstanding community contributors. Microsoft began the MVP Awards many years ago as a way to recognize members of the general public who devoted their time and technical expertise to helping users in various online technical forums. Over time, the program evolved, and awards are given to members of technical communities worldwide for their contributions to communities including third-party Web sites, user groups, blogs and wikis. MVP Awards are given directly by Microsoft Corp.
Below is the list of all 38 new and existing MVP’s for Belgium & Luxembourg cross a wealth of technologies from Dynamics CRM and ERP, over Exchange, SQL and Azure, and consumer security and homeserver. Congratulations to all the new ones!!!
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MVP
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Award Category | Technical Expertise |
| Wim Coorevits | Business Management | Dynamics CRM |
| Eric Wauters | Business Management | Dynamics NAV |
| Luc Van Dyck | Business Management | Dynamics NAV |
| Luc Sanders | Business Productivity | PowerPoint |
| Hans Hoet | Business Productivity | Project |
| Jan De Messemaeker | Business Productivity | Project |
| Didier Stevens | Client Operating System | Consumer Security |
| Marc Van Nooten | Client Operating System | Consumer Security |
| Mieke Verburgh | Client Operating System | Consumer Security |
| Hans Le Roy | Client Operating System | Internet Explorer |
| Tonino Bruno | Comm. & Collaboration | Exchange Server |
| Johan Delimon | Comm. & Collaboration | Lync |
| Kurt Roggen | Comm. & Collaboration | Management Infrastructure |
| Joris Poelmans | Comm. & Collaboration | SharePoint Server |
| Karine Bosch | Comm. & Collaboration | SharePoint Server |
| Michel Bintener | Consumer Solutions | Macintosh |
| Frederik Vandeputte | Data & Storage | SQL Server |
| Hengel Guy | Data & Storage | SQL Server |
| Mike Resseler | Data & Storage | Syst. Ctr. Data Protection Mgr. |
| Kenny Buntinx | Data Center Management | Syst. Ctr. Config.Manager |
| Kim Oppalfens | Data Center Management | Syst. Ctr. Config.Manager |
| Alexandre Verkinderen | Data Center Management | Syst. Ctr. Operations Manager |
| Kris van der Mast | Development Platforms | ASP.NET |
| Maarten Balliauw | Development Platforms | ASP.NET |
| Simone Chiaretta | Development Platforms | ASP.NET |
| Gill Cleeren | Development Platforms | Silverlight |
| Pieter Gheysens | Development Platforms | Visual Studio ALM |
| Panagiotis Kefalidis | Development Platforms | Windows Azure |
| Yves Goeleven | Development Platforms | Windows Azure |
| Marc Gregoire | Development Tools | Visual C++ |
| Frederik De Breuck | Entertainment | Xbox |
| Brecht Kets | Entertainment | XNA/DirectX |
| Riemer Grootjans | Entertainment | XNA/DirectX |
| Tom Decaluwe | Identity & Access | Forefront |
| Paul Loonen | Identity & Access | Identity Lifecycle Manager |
| Peter Geelen | Identity & Access | Identity Lifecycle Manager |
| Wilfried Mestdagh | Online Services | Windows Live Platform |
| Nick Asseloos | Server Solutions | Windows Home Server |
To become an MVP, candidates are nominated by Microsoft, other community individuals, or in some cases themselves. Candidates are rigorously evaluated for their technical expertise, community leadership, and voluntary community contributions for the previous year.
Are you interested in hearing more about the MVP Award from some of our leadership team? Check out this recent video created by Visual C# MVP David Giard about what the MVP Award means to the technical community, what it means to Microsoft, and how MVPs are selected. Please visit the nomination page to nominate a community leader to be considered for an MVP Award.
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