Watch Out, I'm a Partner Now

November 18 is a big day, I, I became a registered member of Microsoft partner program. The question is whether this is a good thing to you.

Colleagues are even more Microsoft employees, partners, the Group has been I signed the power requirements of the Microsoft channel partners In about a month ago. I have been covering Microsoft for seven years, but mostly on the product and it the end-user side, so I never had a reason register as partners people.

Not, I hope, many of you, I did not have a flunky to register for me. I am compelled to do so, the new economy, I and the Internet. Overall, I found the process quite laborious. Oh sure, this requires me to produce another hate Microsoft The Passport account. I use the little things always some program or other Microsoft. Never, I forgot my password and e-mail address I used last time, and the set up a new account. I also encountered a problem of your standard online pits after the registration table, I entered the maximum amount of information left me at a loss.

But enough of my petty whining. Microsofts partner program, I asked a good question, my professional knowledge and business interests, some of which user interface options are pretty good, especially to prospective and existing partner organizations. (I was too eager to use this option, I think that Microsofts channel partners is now a partner more than twice), the whole process quick and easy.

Registered a bit surreptitiously to me, but I guess its set. First, it News exercise? The necessary research work. Even if While Microsoft channel partners (RCP), Microsoft is not selling the software direct, we support Microsofts partners, as advocates. I have to say that This gives us a legitimate role in this community. Let me this issue, I began to use. Of course, I think it is RCP , and to other partners . I hope you agree, and let us better communication you think with us regularly. What, I really do not know whether its good for existing partners, Microsoft has put it so easy to let others become new partners .

About 10 times as much as the partners in the Microsoft Partner Program that now, because there are at the end of 2003, When Microsoft Sign up for free membership level. As Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, in his column in the November issue, the number of certified and gold certified partners remained virtually unchanged, in this timeframe.the benefits, Microsoft have all these new partnerships it is very clear. Mainly, Microsoft has contact information into the best of these organizations authorized or Gold Certified status.

If Microsoft can stimulate certain people registered members to more valuable relationship, it may lead to more fruitful results in the relationship between all partners. On the other hand, I read Microsoft certification program struggle pressure , the surplus Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer a few years ago. Many mcses that crops, the so-called "paper mcses" diluted the value of their certification.

Do you have any experience in this period has been the expansion of Microsoft Partner of the universe? All of these new non-Certified Partner your partner status, less valuable, and increase the file Microsoft Partner procedures or impact the market is not a white? I would like to hear your sbekker@rcpmag.com