NEW YORK, NY May 8, 2007. Microsoft is pleased to announce its third quarter winners of the U.S. Field Partner Awards Program in the New York/New Jersey Area. This program recognizes the contributions of partners serving small, mid-market and enterprise commercial customers.

In the third quarter, partners were recognized across eight individual categories:

• Marketing Excellence,
• General Manager,
• Competency,
• Winning in Value,
• Customer Satisfaction,
• Compete,
• Loyalty and
• Teamwork.

In the third quarter, partners were recognized across eight individual categories: General Manager Award, Competency, Winning in Value, Customer Satisfaction, Marketing Excellence, Compete, Loyalty and Teamwork. Category winners will also be entered into the annual Regional Awards program, presented this summer at the World-Wide Partner Conference in Denver. Winners for the New York/New Jersey Area are as follows:

NetCom Learning receives the award for Marketing Excellence from Microsoft.
NetCom Learning combines the very best of Internet distributed technologies with the traditional instructor led classroom training to maximize the successful training of our students. With the company.s recent acquisition of Computer Training Magazine, NetCom worked to position Steve Ballmer in a cover story highlighting People Ready Business. of Computer Training Magazine is now positioned as a business driver, creating opportunities to strategically drive business for Channel Partners and Microsoft and opportunities to deliver training solutions.

"Microsoft places tremendous value on our partners to help us deliver solutions and applications to customers," said Sarah Steiger, New York/ New Jersey Area General Manager for Microsoft's Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners (SMS&P) group. "We believe these organizations should be acknowledged for their great contributions and achievements over the past quarter."

The Marketing Excellence award recognizes partners who constantly seek to improve their processes and practices, sharing their expertise and ideas with others. It also recognizes partners who leverage and build on Microsoft's GTM activities to provide great value in reaching customers to help solve business problems using MS technology.

"NetCom is committed to Microsoft and Microsoft partner community", said Russell Sarder, NetCom CEO. "We strongly believe in getting the message effectively to the partner channel and the end-user community - be it individuals or businesses. The Magazine (Computer Training Magazine) is a key delivery medium to help us accomplish this - we reach key IT decision makers across Fortune 1000 companies, as well as mid / small enterprises. Microsoft's recognition to our marketing efforts go a long way in substantiating this," he added.

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About NetCom
Headquartered in the Empire State Building, New York City, NetCom is one of the top technology training centers in USA. NetCom today offers blended learning solutions for more than 1000 technical and application courses covering 30 vendor technologies. NetCom has created strategic partnerships with key IT vendors. NetCom is an authorized training center and provides authorized training for industry leaders such as Adobe, Autodesk, Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, CIW, CompTIA, EC-Council, IBM, ITIL , IWA, Linux Institute, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Quark, PMI, Sair Linux , SOX and Zend. NetCom is an authorized testing center for Sylvan Prometric and VUE. NetCom is also a NY and NJ Workforce Training Provider and a Licensed School registered with the New York State Education Department.