MICROSOFT CANADA INC

MICROSOFT CANADA INC.

If you Build IT, they will come Contest

OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS

1) No purchase necessary. To be eligible to win, a participant must be a resident of Canada and of the age of majority in his or her province of residence and

· is a current member of the Microsoft Partner Network, or

· is a current member of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, or

· is an MSDN subscriber, or

· is a current member of the BizSpark Program

Any potential participant who is an employee of Microsoft Corporation or Microsoft Canada Co. (“Microsoft”), their affiliated companies, advertising agencies, prize suppliers or other representatives, or a member of the respective immediate families of such employees or anyone with whom such employees are domiciled is ineligible to participate in the contest.

2. The contest will run from January 25^th, 2010 11:59PM EST until March 31^st, 2010.

3. Eligible participants may enter the contest by one of three means:

Participant will need to develop and deploy an application to Windows Azure (http://windows.azure.com) and submit the deployed application URL by 11:59PM EST on March 31^st 2010 to cdnazure@microsoft.com including “Partner Submission-Build IT and They will Come” in the subject line. Deployed applications can be in either ‘Production’ or ‘Staging’ mode on Azure. Applications are to remain deployed to Windows Azure until at least March 31^st, 2010.

Participant can deploy one or more of the sample applications from the Windows Azure Training Kit (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/getstarted/) to Windows Azure. The deploy application URL(s) will need to be submitted by 11:59PM EST on March 31^st 2010 to cdnazure@microsoft.com including “Partner Submission-Build IT and They will Come” in the subject line. Applications are to remain deployed to Windows Azure until at least March 31^st2010.

By obtaining a contest entry form by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

Attention: Ted Chun, DPE
Microsoft Canada
1950 Meadowvale Blvd.
Mississauga, L5N 8L9

and completing and returning the entry form.

Mail-in entry forms will not be distributed after the close of the contest on March 31^st, 2010 and must be received by April 9^th, 2010. Incomplete or late entries will not be accepted. Microsoft takes no responsibility for lost, late, destroyed or misdirected entries.

4. Each deployed application URL submitted to the cdnazure@microsoft.com will receive one ballot in the contest. There are no limit to the number of ballots each person can have.

5. One (1) winner will be selected by random draw to be held on April 16^th 2010, at 1950 Meadowvale Blvd, Mississauga Ontario. The chances of being selected depend upon the number of entries.

6. The selected participant will be notified by telephone or email within fifteen (15) days of the draw and, prior to being declared a winner, will be required to correctly answer, unaided and without mechanical or electronic assistance, a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing technical question, to be administered by telephone at a mutually convenient time.

7. If the selected participant is unable to correctly answer the skill-testing question, cannot be reached by telephone or email within fifteen (15) days of the draw, or otherwise does not meet all contest conditions, his or her prize will be forfeited and another entrant will be drawn from the remaining eligible entries.

8. There is one (1) prize available to be won, consisting of one (1) $7000 AMEX gift card. The prize will be couriered to the winner’s address within two (2) weeks of the receipt of the signed declaration and release. All taxes related to a prize are payable by the winner. Any costs or expenses incurred by the winners in claiming or using their prizes are the responsibility of the winners.

9. The prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternatives will be provided. Microsoft reserves the right to substitute the prizes described above in (7) with prizes of equal or greater value.

10. By entering, all participants agree to abide by the official rules and regulations and decisions of the contest organizers which are final.

11. Participants are responsible for any costs associated with participating in this contest.

12. To be declared a winner, a selected participant will be required to sign a declaration and release to: (a) confirm compliance with the official rules and regulations; (b) release Microsoft from all liability; (c) accept the prize as awarded; and (d) consents to the use of winner’s name, city and/or province of residence, photograph, voice, image, likeness, biographical information and information about the prize, for any publicity or programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, throughout the world in any and all media used by Microsoft and its advertising and promotional agencies in connection with the contest, without payment or compensation.

13. In consideration of this prize, the undersigned hereby irrevocably consents to the use of my/ Winner’s name, city and/or province of residence, photograph, voice, image, likeness, biographical information and information about the prize, for any publicity or programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, throughout the world in any and all media used by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Canada Co. and their respective advertising and promotional agencies in connection with the Contest, without payment or compensation.

14. The contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.

15. No correspondence will be entered into with participants except with the winner.

16. Subject to the approval of the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux, Microsoft reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the contest should causes beyond the control of Microsoft corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the contest.

17. Microsoft assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction to or unauthorized alteration of the entries. Microsoft is not responsible for (i) any problems or technical malfunctions or any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software; (ii) the failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Microsoft on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site; or (iii) any combination thereof, including any injury or related damage to participants or any other persons, whether computer-related or resulting from participation or downloading of any materials in this contest.

18. With respect to Québec residents and to entries originating within the Province of Québec, any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.