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- January, Micro Endeavors acheives the Microsoft competency in Custom Development. Competencies are newly defined areas of specialization introduced by Microsoft in 2005.
- April, Micro Endeavors receives
Delaware County Chamber of Commerce
2007 Small Business of the Year Award!
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2007 |

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- Micro Endeavors continues to host Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group meetings.
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2006 |
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- Micro Endeavors' Networking Services Division is awarded Philadelphia Magazine's
"Best of Philly 2005."
- Micro Endeavors speaks at the national Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) Community Summit covering SQL Server 2005 topics.
- Micro Endeavors hosts Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group and the Philadelphia FoxPro Users Group meetings.
- Micro Endeavors speaks at the national ITEC Conference and Exposition.
- November, Micro Endeavors attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status.
November, Micro Endeavors acheives Microsoft competencies in Networking Infrastructure and Advanced Infrastructure. These competencies are newly defined areas of specialization introduced by Microsoft this year.
- Micro Endeavors hosts a national Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Product Launch Event and provides subject matter experts to deliver the launch content.
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2005 |
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- Micro Endeavors and ComputerLine, one of the area's leading network integrators and end-user trainers since 1988, complete a strategic merger that gives them the capability of providing complete IT solutions to their customers.
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2004 |
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- January, Micro Endeavors' Chief Technology Officer is renamed The Microsoft Developer Network Regional Director for Eastern Pennsylvania.
- Having achieved modest success (and with an eye towards much greater success), Micro Endeavors incorporates the I.T.SkillsPlus division as TechSmarts, Inc.
- June, Micro Endeavors celebrates 20 years in technology.
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2003 |

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- January, Micro Endeavors' Chief Technology Officer is named the Microsoft Developer Network Regional Director for Eastern Pennsylvania.
- August, Micro Endeavors receives congratulations from Microsoft for the outstanding results achieved in the Microsoft .NET Developer Training Seminars.
- Micro Endeavors hosts PhillyDotNet Users Group meetings.
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2002 |
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- Micro Endeavors renames Skills2000 to I.T.SkillsPlus and launches a new division to develop and market course materials and professional development services to academic markets worldwide.
- Micro Endeavors begins free monthly executive seminars in .NET technology.
- Micro Endeavors nominated by Microsoft to prepare our trainers to launch an aggressive Visual Studio .NET campaign to get over 100,000 developers trained during this year.
- Micro Endeavors opens .NET Technology Center in Malvern, PA.
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2001 |
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- Micro Endeavors connects the world of developers at five National Developer Conferences where we mentored and educated technology professionals on such products as Windows 2000, Visual Basic, SQL Server 2000, Visual FoxPro and ASP.
- Micro Endeavors aligns with Pennsylvania school districts implementing the Skills 2000 developer courses into their high school curriculum.
- Micro Endeavors' eReq application for Centocor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, becomes a Microsoft Web Solution Platform Case Study.
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2000 |
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- Micro Endeavors works with the Chicago Housing Authority in a welfare-to-work program based on Skills2000 courseware.
- Micro Endeavors licenses the Skills 2000 developer curriculum to Microsoft.
- Micro Endeavors receives Solution Provider award from Microsoft as one of the top three Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers worldwide for their "Excellence in Training".
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1999 |
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- Micro Endeavors and Microsoft jointly sponsor a 14 city National Developer Seminar on Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro and SQL Server.
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1998 |
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- Micro Endeavors is promoted to Microsoft Certified Partner status by being recognized as a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner.
- Micro Endeavors is promoted to Microsoft Partner status by being recognized as a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center Partner.
- Micro Endeavors and Microsoft jointly sponsors a 14 city National Developer Seminar on Visual Studio for the Visual Basic Developer.
- Micro Endeavors develops the Skills2000 developer curriculum.
Skills2000 was an innovative series of courses that worked in conjunction with Microsoft Official Curriculum to help fill the I.T. Skills Gap. The courseware was designed to teach career transitioners the fundamentals of application development concepts and methodology and to provide a real-world context for learning Microsoft programming languages.
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1997 |
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- Micro Endeavors speaks at the national Microsoft Tech Ed Conference.
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1996 |
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- Micro Endeavors and Microsoft jointly sponsor a 22 city National Developer Seminar on Visual FoxPro beginning in March 1995.
- Micro Endeavors development team completes the largest client/server application using Microsoft developer tools and platforms integrating FoxPro DOS and Visual Basic for the Bank of Mexico.
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1995 |
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- Micro Endeavors authors "Creating Access Applications" published by Que.
- Micro Endeavors speaks at the national Microsoft Tech Ed Conference.
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1994 |
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- Micro Endeavors develops industry standard benchmarks for Microsoft, Borland and Computer Associates. The publication of these benchmarks resulted in several large development and training contracts, as well as increased visibility in the database industry.
- Micro Endeavors authors Creating FoxPro Applications book published by Que.
- Microsoft joins MEI in producing a nationwide FoxPro and Access training tour.
- Micro Endeavors speaks at the national Microsoft Tech Ed Conference.
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1993 |
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- Micro Endeavors has three featured speakers at the Microsoft Developers Conference.
- Microsoft purchases Fox Software and hires MEI to train Microsoft's internal staff on how to use FoxPro.
- Micro Endeavors authors Microsoft University developer courseware.
- As a result of MEI's successful training of Microsoft employees, and as a result of MEI's reputation and obvious success as trainers, Microsoft hired MEI to author Microsoft University's FoxPro and Access courseware.
- Micro Endeavors partners with Microsoft as a Microsoft Solution Provider.
- Micro Endeavors partners with Microsoft as a Certified Technical Education Center.
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1992 |
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- Mobil chooses Micro Endeavors to write the Mariner project.
The Mariner project was the world's largest FoxPro application. More than 100 vessels at sea, and LANs on 3 continents, share information via satellite and WAN connections to control the billions of barrels of oil and natural gas that Mobil ships annually.
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1990 |
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- The Micro Endeavors development team is a featured speaker at the first Microsoft Fox Developers Conference.
- Micro Endeavors, Inc. begins offering application developer training.
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1989 |
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- The company was founded in 1983 during the early years of the personal computer industry and made its initial mark doing custom software development for area firms such as Prism and Rhorer Pharmaceuticals.
- Co-founder, George Goley, was an early champion of standards and methodologies for the new breed of software developer and published several articles in various industry publications and wrote the first book on FoxPro development for Fox Software.
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1983 |
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