Speaking to 3,000 partners in the opening keynote at Microsoft® Fusion 2002, the company's premier annual partner event, Allison Watson, the new vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group, announced plans for a $500 million investment in the company's partner community starting this fiscal year, a 50 percent increase over last year's annual partner investment. The move is a renewal of Microsoft's commitment to leadership, predictability and defined opportunity for its 810,000-member partner community.
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