SHANGHAI and FOSTER CITY, Calif--14 Dec--PRNewswire-AsiaNet/InfoQuest Augmentum to Showcase Windows Vista(TM) New Capabilities for Engaging User Experiences Augmentum, a value-added software development outsourcing services provider operating in Asia and the US, today announced that Wayne Hom, Augmentum CTO, will demonstrate a Vista-based interactive application for Hong Kong's boomingreal estate industry, developed in conjunction with Centaline, a leading local estate agency company in Hong Kong with over 2,600 staff working in over 180 different branches, at Microsoft's Hong Kong business launch of the 2007 Windows Vista, Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. "Vista represents Microsoft's first significant advance to the user experience and the programming model of that user experience since the release of Windows 95," says Wayne Hom, Augmentum CTO. "Now it is possible for a small team of corporate developers to quickly develop the kind of video game quality experiences that used to take large teams of hard core developers, workingwith very low level programming abstractions, much longer to create. Augmentum recognized Vista's capability early on and invested in creating integrated design and development teams and methodologies to exploit this new model to deliver a new generation of immersive, engaging, and interactive, enterprise and consumer applications." Mr. Hom will be speaking at the sold-out afternoon session entitled, "Building Differentiated User Experiences with Windows Vista" as well as at a CIO invitation-only luncheon the same day. Earlier this year, Augmentum was awarded "Best .Net Consultant Partner" 2006, at the Microsoft Hong Kong Annual Channel Kick-Off. Microsoft established their award program to recognizepartners who consistently deliver the implementation expertise and experience required in today's enterprise software deployments. About Augmentum Augmentum offers value-added offshore software development services to its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to 800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three years since its founding and won the inauguralRed Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221. SOURCE Augmentum CONTACT: U.S., Lisa Carnochan, +1-650-578-9221 x 104; or China, Belinda Qin, +011-86-21-5131-4277 x 431 Web site: http://www.augmentum.com --Distributed by AsiaNet ( www.asianetnews.net )--