"From voting to nominate the next President of the United States to adopting a national platform, there is a significant amount of important party business that goes on at each and every convention," a hopeful DNCC CEO Leah Daughtry said. "Microsoft's pioneering technology will play an integral role in powering the business of the Party in Denver."

Microsoft will provide the DNCC with technologies to enhance engagement with Web viewers, delegates, members of the media and other convention guests and to support delegate tracking, management of credentials and voting -- a cornerstone of the massive gathering. During the nomination process, Microsoft will provide up-to-the-minute delegate vote totals electronically, allowing timely reporting of tallies as compiled by each delegation's chair.

Plus, in a first for a political convention, Silverlight, Microsoft's platform for interactive Web applications and HD video, in conjunction with the Level 3 Communications network, will bring live, gavel-to-gavel convention video coverage of the highest quality to a worldwide audience via the DNCC's Web site at DemConvention.com.