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Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft offers a wide range of innovative products and services designed to help individuals and organizations realize their full potential.

Over the past 20 years, the Microsoft and Autodesk partnership has delivered solutions that enable customers to experience their ideas before they’re actualized with cutting-edge, model-based design, mapping, and management tools that redefine the integration of design and spatial data and user interactions within the design process. As a result, innovative tools empower extended teams to collaborate and access the most up-to-date, accurate spatial information across the entire organization—reducing data silos while improving efficiency, response time, and customer satisfaction. Autodesk is also a member of the Microsoft global Independent Service Vendor (ISV) program.

Watch this short video to learn how Microsoft technology and Autodesk® Mudbox™ 2009 software work together to revolutionize the design process by removing traditional design barriers through natural and intuitive user interfaces.

Highlighted Solutions

Organizations that adopt Autodesk geospatial solutions built with Microsoft technologies save resources and money almost immediately, greatly minimizing time-consuming data conversion, error-prone data redundancy, and the loss of valuable engineering precision that comes from managing data separately. To learn more, read the Autodesk Geospatial Solutions white paper.

To see demonstrations on how AutoCAD® Map 3D and Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise integrate with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, please view the following videos:

Adding Data
Publishing Data
Converting Data

Open Source Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for SQL Server 2008

Developed by Autodesk and donated to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), the Open Source FDO Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 allows geospatial customers to take advantage of the native support for spatial data in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

For additional information on Autodesk geospatial technology, watch Autodesk Product Manager Pieter Rieks in an interview on MSDN’s Channel 9. Visit Microsoft for more information on the company, its products, and its partnership with Autodesk.