On April 2, 2007, the winner was notified that their design submissions had been selected.

First Place winner is Deepak Sharma from Tata Consultancy Services. The winning design mashed up the following services:

Microsoft Corporations MapPoint Web Service
mashed up with the following British Telecommunications services:
Location
InboundSMS
Messaging
Authentication
Presence
The combination of these services seeks to resolve capacity issues in the transportation industry.
For more information on the winning design, please visit: http://csf.topcoder.com/?module=ViewPastContests 

Every competition has two phases, the first is Design and the second is Assembly (actual prototyping). Now that the winning design has been selected, it will be used as the basis for the Assembly competition. The Assembly compeition begins Tuesday April 10, 2007. For information on how to register for the competitions, please visit www.networkmashups.com to learn more about the competitions and how to join.

To stimulate the creation of new communications services, as well as aggregations of these services in network
mashups, Microsoft has established the Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox. The Connected Services Sandbox
is a live, proof-of-concept and demonstration environment that unites developers, partners and service providers
around a common goal: to rapidly develop and bring to market innovative new communications services.
The Connected Services Sandbox is a runtime environment, managed by Microsoft and hosted by a hosting
partner. In the Sandbox, Microsoft Connected Services Framework provides the environment for aggregating,
provisioning and managing service mashups. With Connected Services Framework as the foundation, the Sandbox
features other Microsoft products and solutions such as Microsoft Customer Care Framework , Microsoft Solution
for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration, and Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting, and will be updated
regularly as new Microsoft technologies and solutions become available.

The environment will be accessible via the Internet to facilitate and encourage integration with publicly available
Web services. Examples of such services include Microsoft Windows Live™ services and MapPoint® Web service,
as well as services such as eBay, Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo and others.

Participants in the Sandbox are provided with the components necessary to create innovative services that can
be taken to market rapidly. The Connected Services Sandbox offers the following key benefi ts to its participants:

• Products – early exposure to Microsoft products and solutions
• Developers – access to trained Microsoft developers, designers and architects
• Services – feedback mechanism for the reporting of usage trends, scenarios and popularity
  of published services
• Business opportunities – new business and collaboration opportunities through the Microsoft Communications
  Sector Partner Network, as immediate exposure to Microsoft field sales organization and customers
• Marketing support – promotion of the Sandbox through press releases, industry events, marketing and
  sales collateral, and community-based support tools including newsgroups, newsletters, white papers,
  announcements, how-to-articles, etc.

Fuelling Innovation through Competition
In order to stimulate the development of new services, Microsoft, in partnership with BT, will launch a series of
design and development competitions to identify innovative connected services that can be taken to market.
Participants will collaborate and compete to generate new service designs and build functional prototypes of
those designs. The competitions, which begin January 2007, will be managed by TopCoder, a leader in online
programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development.

For more information on the Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox, please visit www.networkmashups.com.
For more information specific to the competitions, please visit http://csf.topcoder.com/