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No more Small Business Financials

I remember when I first heard about Microsoft Small Business Financials (SBF).  I think the unofficial name was something like Great Plains Basic.  This was before it actually came out with the name Small Business Manager.  Ah, how Microsoft loves to change product names.  But I digress.  We had many prospects at the time that were just not […]

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Microsoft to redefine Partner Program

When Microsoft bought Great Plains Software in 2001 most existing GP Partners that were not Microsoft Partners already became part of the Microsoft Partner Program. It took many years to actually integrate all the systems and databases and my personal experience has shown that this integration is not quite complete yet. In the meantime, partners have been getting used to the […]

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New Microsoft Ads

The new Microsoft ads, part of the $300 million “Windows. Life without walls” campaign are histerical!  Two of them feature Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld and some other news ads are coming soon to combat Mac’s ads blasting Windows Vista.  You can even try to become part of the ads and appear on the Times Square billboards.  […]

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