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Hands off my youngin’ Microsoft!
Posted: 11:18 pm March 7th, 2006	Post a comment IT Business, Microsoft

My Golden Boy has a very interesting post of Microsoft going around him to reach the client he nominated for a promotion. Ouch. So not only are Microsoft partners completely abandoning the hope in Microsoft of ever developing secure software, combatting piracy, direct competition on ISV and service fronts but we must now even filter out the promotions we participate in? Bad PR move guys, very bad PR move. You can play dirty with your customers all you want, but if you go against your partners they just might find alternatives you so desperately do not want them to see. But why a bad PR move? Well, if you're going to mess with someones business I'd expect you to pick on JimmyBob Budlight, the Action Pack pirate. I would not expect you to go after an influential Gold Certified Partner that reaches over 20,000 partners a week. Update: Now I wish this person had left their name so we can follow up on this, so at the time I am going to call this BS. But anybody else with experience similar to below:

I had the SAME thing happen and my client conferenced me in. Apparently they wanted to make sure that the work they needed done was taken care of by a partner with the most competence in that field. They were going to take my customer and send them over to another partner. Great.

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chuck walker | March 7th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

First Dell.
Now Microsoft.

He is a little sketchy and I hope you are wrong about this. Only problem I see is that Microsoft partners are now established businesses in technology and consulting so they will pick a new vendor.

Sorry Vlad, we dumped Dell a long time ago because of this behavior.

Anonymous | March 8th, 2006 at 10:21 am

I had the SAME thing happen and my client conferenced me in. Apparently they wanted to make sure that the work they needed done was taken care of by a partner with the most competence in that field.

They were going to take my customer and send them over to another partner. Great.

Vlad | March 8th, 2006 at 10:23 am

Wish you left your name so I can take this a little more seriously.

-Vlad

Terry Michaels | March 8th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

Wow. You know how everyone is always upset at Google and what they may be able to do.. nobody ever mentions Microsoft in the IT space. Microsoft owns development, financing, support. We’re effectively reduced to the sales force and level 0 tech support for clients. With all that is going on I do not see how you can survive in this game with Microsoft as your “partner” if these cases become more prevalent.

cft | March 8th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

I’ve had this happen but they were just confirming who the client was, who they worked with, what their needs were. It seemed like they just wanted to confirm the nomination.

Anonymous | March 8th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

I’ll call BS on it too. Microsoft has never called any of my clients unless it was used by me as a reference for the certification.

happyfunboy | March 20th, 2006 at 10:48 am

apologize for the long delay in an update.

the funcave has a full write-up, but…suffice to say…

despite the uncanny similarities in the info that was asked, the contact to one of my clients did not come as a result of the tech makeover promotion.

soâ€¦no worries there.

nope…it came from another group at ms.

so, all you partners can rest easier tonight knowing that, for no reason whatsoever, some group from ms can go around you at any time, and offer to put your clients in touch with your competition…like the vw brigade.

as queenie would say…

loverly!

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