Empower Microsoft Empower Program The Empower program is designed to assist ISVs, over a 12-month period, in developing a commercially-viable software product based on Microsoft technologies. Comments Anonymous December 04, 2003 Interesting, thank you. This is of course a very interesting deal of a start-up with a low budget. Anonymous December 04, 2003 Looks very interesting, but whats the catch if you fail to meet requirements. Are the licences granted only for the 12 month period? Anonymous December 05, 2003 the catch is that at the end of the period, if you dont have a certified application, your msdn subcription expires. Anonymous April 09, 2008 I’ve been a big fan of Microsoft Empower for ISVs since it launched. I’ve written a few posts about it Additional resources Last updated on 2003-12-04