BSQUARE Wins Top Industry Honors at the Microsoft TechEd Tradeshow

Business Wire,  June 4, 2008  

Tags: industry, Microsoft Corp.

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Software Solutions Company Wins Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards in System Integrator and Distributor Categories

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- BSQUARE Corporation (Nasdaq: BSQR), a leading software solutions provider to the global embedded device community, was recognized with two prestigious awards last night at the Microsoft TechEd Tradeshow. Microsoft presented BSQUARE with Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards in both the System Integrator and Distributor categories, making BSQUARE the only company to receive both awards in the same year -- a feat it has achieved twice now.

"BSQUARE's Windows Embedded CE expertise and strong reputation as a leading systems integration company make them highly deserving of these two awards," said Kevin Hawkins, OMAP35x marketing manager, Texas Instruments (TI). "Their added experience with OMAP(TM) based development platforms helps customers develop high performance, multimedia-rich embedded devices easily and quickly."

"It's an honor to be recognized by Microsoft for our system integration and distribution capabilities," said Brian Crowley, president and CEO of BSQUARE. "We have developed world-class expertise in Microsoft Embedded Operating Systems. With this expertise we can create an entire device for a customer, or take on portions of the device that demand deep expertise and understanding, such as power management, high-performance multimedia, audio management and radio interface design. We strive to offer our customers a complete range of BSQUARE products and services as well as Microsoft Embedded licenses. Our goal is to have valuable offerings for our customers in each phase of their device design cycle. These Microsoft awards demonstrate the progress we have made working steadily over the last few years to improve the depth and breadth of our offerings."

Leading System Integrator

In presenting BSQUARE with a Windows Embedded Excellence Award for system integration, Microsoft commended the company for its leadership role in providing a broad range of engineering services for a wide assortment of Windows Embedded CE and Windows XP Embedded devices, ranging from secure, mobile devices to complex connected medical devices to point-of-sale solutions. In 2007 alone, BSQUARE successfully completed over 200 engineering service engagements for such well-known companies as Motorola, Qualcomm, and Palm. BSQUARE also maintains strategic relationships with leading silicon manufacturers, including Freescale([TM]) Semiconductor, Intel([R]), Marvell([R]), and Texas Instruments, enabling it to offer silicon-specific development tools -- such as the BSQUARE's DevKit development platforms for both the Marvell PXA 27x/3xx and Texas Instruments OMAP 25x/35x Application Processor families -- that help its OEM customers get their products to market faster.

Top Distributor

In awarding BSQUARE a Windows Embedded Excellence Award for its role as a distributor, Microsoft observed that the company has continued to raise the bar in providing customers with world-class professional services and logistics capabilities. The company's success as a distributor is evident from its 2007 results, which showed double-digit growth in toolkit sales, OEM pre-installation kit (OPK) sales, and operating system license sales.

"We congratulate BSQUARE on winning Microsoft Embedded Excellence Awards in both the System Integrator and Distributor categories," said Anne Bonaparte, president and CEO, Solidcore. "This exceptional achievement and recognition further validates our selection of BSQUARE as a primary distributor of Solidcore's security and change control software for Windows Embedded operating systems."

About BSQUARE

BSQUARE is a software solution provider to the global embedded device community. Committed to delivering quality and lowering project risk and time to market, our teams collaborate with smart device makers at any stage in their device development. For more information about BSQUARE, visit www.bsquare.com.

About the Texas Instruments Developer Network

BSQUARE is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community of respected, well-established companies offering products and services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun.

About Solidcore

Solidcore is the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change. Organizations worldwide trust Solidcore's change control software to improve IT compliance, security and availability. Solidcore S3 Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.solidcore.com.