BlackBerry and Microsoft Partner to Empower the Mobile Workforce

SINGAPORE – March 20, 2018 – BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX:
BB) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a strategic
partnership to offer enterprises a solution that integrates BlackBerry’s
expertise in mobility and security with Microsoft’s unmatched cloud and
productivity products.

Through this partnership, the companies have
collaborated on a first-of-its-kind solution: BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE.
This technology provides a highly-secure way for their joint customers – the
world’s largest banks, healthcare providers, law firms, and central governments
– to seamlessly use native Microsoft mobile apps from within
BlackBerry Dynamics.

By making Microsoft’s mobile apps seamlessly
available from within BlackBerry Dynamics, enterprise users will now have a
consistent experience when opening, editing, and saving a Microsoft Office 365
file such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word on any iOS® or Android™
device. This enables users to work anytime, anyplace, with rich file
fidelity. At the same time, corporate IT departments benefit from a greater
return on their existing investments, and added assurance that their company’s
data and privacy is secured to the highest standards and in compliance with
corporate and regulatory policies.

“BlackBerry has always led the market with new
and innovative ways to protect corporate data on mobile devices,” said Carl
Wiese, president of Global Sales at BlackBerry. “We saw a need for a
hyper-secure way for our joint customers to use native Office 365 mobile apps.
BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE addresses this need and is a great example of how
BlackBerry and Microsoft continue to securely enable workforces to be highly
productive in today’s connected world.”

“In an era
when digital technology is driving rapid transformation, customers are looking
for a trusted partner,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of
Worldwide Commercial Business at Microsoft. “Our customers choose Microsoft 365
for productivity and collaboration tools that deliver continuous innovation,
and do so securely. Together with BlackBerry, we will take this to the next
level and provide enterprises with a new standard for secure productivity.”

“Along with
a number of our peers in the Financial Services industry, we see strategic
partnerships like this one as key to enhancing and bringing new products to
market,” said George Sherman, Managing Director, CIO Global Technology
Infrastructure, JPMorgan Chase. “This partnership will help create a more
seamless mobile experience for end-users, which is a top priority for us at
JPMorgan Chase.”

Lastly, the
companies shared that the BlackBerry Secure platform for connecting people,
devices, processes and systems, has been integrated with the Microsoft Azure
cloud platform. Specifically,
BlackBerry UEM Cloud,
BlackBerry Workspaces, BlackBerry Dynamics, and BlackBerry AtHoc are now
available on Azure.

To learn more, please visit BlackBerry.com.

BlackBerry
is an enterprise software and services company focused on securing and managing
IoT endpoints. The company does this with BlackBerry Secure, an end-to-end
Enterprise of Things platform, comprised of its enterprise communication and
collaboration software and safety-certified embedded solutions.

Based in
Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry was founded in 1984 and operates in North
America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa. The
Company trades under the ticker symbol “BB” on the Toronto Stock
Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. For more information visitBlackBerry.com,
and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the
leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first
world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the
planet to achieve more.

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