Microsoft: we make partners' lives too complicated Microsoft has admitted that making life simpler for its partners is a "perennial challenge" that is tough to overcome. "We as a business are not doing a good enough job of showing partners what to specifically sell to customers," the firm's SMB boss Scott Dodds said at a Microsoft Partner Network event in Wembley, London today …
As someone who works for a Microsoft Gold Partner, I have to say that Microsoft are one of the *least-bad* vendors to work with. Nowadays, they have a decent Partner scheme, they clearly put a lot of (money and) effort into their reseller channel and you can usually find someone sensible to speak to if you need help.
Just my 10p-worth (as a long-time Mac user & definitely non-Microsoft fan).
>"We've learned a lesson from Vista," she said. "We wouldn't have been able to make the step-change we have without it."<
Lesson I learned from not being offered an upgrade price from Vista is learn to love the penguin.
1) Themes make it not so awful to look at.
2) Better online security
3) Wine runs Dreamweaver 8 very nicely.
4) Open Office not so awful once you learn its peccadilloes (faster than the move from MS Office 2003 to 2007), does everything I require from it (so far).
5) Gimp replaces Photoshop (still learning so unsure if it's as good, but it opens PSD files no problems, with all layers intact).
6) Evolution replaces Outlook, not terrible but no synch with my phone... as yet. When new phone time, looking for one that works with Ubuntu.
7) Better online security.
8) Ubuntu 9.04 offers much better hardware recognition at install (inc Belkin wireless adaptor, Aiptek graphics tablet, two Epson printers and a USB mouse).
9) Everything (even Wine ran Dreamweaver) feels so much more responsive.
10) And finally, better online security.
So, congratulations Microsoft, you've pushed one loyal (albeit unwilling), customer of 27 years (MSDOS 3.3 1987) over to the dark side... and I've never been happier.
Microsoft has never really *got* elegant simplicity, have they? Compare the clown pants of the hotmail home page with the less visually abhorent gmail.
They need to learn that I don't 'want fries with that' and to remember that I 'don't want fries with that' everytime I use that particular application.
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