Announcing: MPN Small Business Competency

We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the Small Business Competency in June 2012. This new MPN competency is designed from
the ground up based on partner input and feedback. It will help build a skilled partner ecosystem to drive our Small Business cloud and on-premise products
& services to establish break-through growth in this segment.

Seizing the SMB opportunity

This new competency offers partners world class value, service and support to increase their profitability by marketing, selling and servicing
products such as Office 365, Windows, Office, Windows Server, Small Business Server and Windows Intune. It is our big bet to gain another strategic
avenue to seize the$94B SMB market opportunity and compete against Google.

Leading with Cloud

As the cloud opportunity matures in SMB, this competency will enable each SB Competency Partner to have a cloud conversation with their
customers. It offers partners marketing, sales and technical capabilities to support either cloud services or on-premise products.

MPN Program Positioning

The current Small Business Specialist Community program will continue to exist and we will continue to support our SBSC partners. After a
grace period where the Small Business Competency brand will co-exist with the SBSC brand, the Small Business Specialist Community will become an MPN partner-to-partner
community. We will provide a smooth pathway into the Small Business Competency for SBSC partners that value the brand. This competency will also co-exist with
the Cloud Essentials program, the Cloud Accelerate program and the Mid-Market Competency.