“Now that InterHAND becomes a Microsoft AER, we can enforce and ensure that our academic/educative customers will receive the best approach, advise and price when they need to decide which software is required to fulfill their staff, teachers and students needs” said Víctor Alvarado, IT Manager and founder of InterHAND. “At the end, students and customers budgets will receive the benefit of high technology products with the proven expertise.

“By becoming AERs, partners show themselves to be committed and trained in providing discounted Microsoft academic products to the education market,” said Anthony Salcito, vice president of Education for Microsoft Corp.’s Worldwide Public Sector. “This authorization, along with our other education partner initiatives, gives our partners recognition of their areas of expertise and our academic customers the confidence that they are buying from academic IT specialists.”