Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 21, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, is providing e-commerce services to support the online sale and download of 2007 Microsoft Office system products and Windows Vista in the United States.

Tom Venable, Senior Vice President of Sales of Digital River remarked,.”We are pleased to further expand our relationship with Microsoft. By working with Microsoft to make its newest and most widely used software available for online purchase and digital delivery, we can help the company even more effectively meet the broad-based demand for its products and add even more value to the consumer shopping experience.”

In the Windows Marketplace, Digital River is supporting the e-commerce sale of the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007, as well as upgrades to Windows Vista Business, Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate editions. In addition to managing the online transactions, payment processing and digital downloads for these products, Digital River is providing customer support and fraud prevention services.

Joe Peterson, Corporate Vice President of the Market Expansion Platform Group at Microsoft Corp. added, “Microsoft is committed to making it very easy for customers to purchase and download its software. By using Digital River’s e-commerce capabilities within our Windows Marketplace, we can offer our customers on-demand access to our most popular products in a fast and easy way that provides our customers a confident experience.”

Digital River also provides e-commerce services and digital delivery for thousands of other third-party software titles through Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace. The Windows Marketplace is designed for easy acquisition and download of software from the portfolio of products available on the Windows platform.

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

For more information about The 2007 Office and Windows Vista products, please visit: www.windowsmarketplace.com/.

To learn more about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.

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