I have been quiet busy getting my certifications for my Microsoft vTSP and P-Seller membership. What helped me enormously is the information available in the Microsoft organisation. Microsoft colleagues are struggling with the same problems and have to be certified like all of us.
Unfortunately Microsoft Corporation has decided that the vTSP / P-Sellers will no longer be part of the Microsoft organisation by the end of this month. That will certainly make the front runner job as a P-Seller / vTSP more complicated.
So this blogpost is a bit of goodbye to my Microsoft integration.
It was great because I had direct contact to Microsoft colleagues like Ned Pyle, Ryan Sokolowski, Conor Cunningham, Henk van der Valk, Brian Smith, Chris Buehler, Michael Rys, Vivek Gupta and others. It was a privilege to work with you all.
Since Satya Nadella has become CEO of Microsoft a wind of change has taken over Microsoft. Away is the arrogance and the "we are the best" that was part of the Steve Balmer culture. It is now "lets do business together" and "lets see what we can do to make your business as smooth as possible".
Microsoft's core business is making software and to sell it. Steve Balmer made Microsoft a marketing managed organisation with products like Windows Millennium, Windows Vista, Windows 8, etc. or in other words a money making machine pushing updates onto the users telling them they will get "the best ever" when in fact that was not the case.
To me Steve Balmer was the life incorporation of a car sales manager doing software: you have to stuff that shitty new model nobody wants on your customers while you know that it breaks down too often and it will cost a fortune to maintain but that is business. Do it : Seal the Deal!
With Satya Nadella Microsoft has become again the enthusiastic developer community that it was in the beginning that shared everything including its enthusiasm for technology and progress.
Really, Microsoft is hot and an organisation that can meet and beat the competition. Mark my words.
Unfortunately Microsoft Corporation has decided that the vTSP / P-Sellers will no longer be part of the Microsoft organisation by the end of this month. That will certainly make the front runner job as a P-Seller / vTSP more complicated.
So this blogpost is a bit of goodbye to my Microsoft integration.
It was great because I had direct contact to Microsoft colleagues like Ned Pyle, Ryan Sokolowski, Conor Cunningham, Henk van der Valk, Brian Smith, Chris Buehler, Michael Rys, Vivek Gupta and others. It was a privilege to work with you all.
Since Satya Nadella has become CEO of Microsoft a wind of change has taken over Microsoft. Away is the arrogance and the "we are the best" that was part of the Steve Balmer culture. It is now "lets do business together" and "lets see what we can do to make your business as smooth as possible".
Microsoft's core business is making software and to sell it. Steve Balmer made Microsoft a marketing managed organisation with products like Windows Millennium, Windows Vista, Windows 8, etc. or in other words a money making machine pushing updates onto the users telling them they will get "the best ever" when in fact that was not the case.
To me Steve Balmer was the life incorporation of a car sales manager doing software: you have to stuff that shitty new model nobody wants on your customers while you know that it breaks down too often and it will cost a fortune to maintain but that is business. Do it : Seal the Deal!
With Satya Nadella Microsoft has become again the enthusiastic developer community that it was in the beginning that shared everything including its enthusiasm for technology and progress.
Really, Microsoft is hot and an organisation that can meet and beat the competition. Mark my words.
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