Micorsoft is adopting me…

I love SharpReader, the RSS Reader. It allows me to keep up to date with a whole lot of stuff. And do it fairly effectively. Imagine my surprise when I see a strange new article on CNET, a news source that I normally only look at if it is a link of SlashDot.Org. Anyway there are an item there about new Microsoft ISV offerings. One of them was a new license structure for including microsoft products with my products. Ho, Hum.

The next was a program by microsoft to adopt one of us poor ISV’s. Now, this is amazing. A large company like Microsoft caring about me. Yeah. Sure. And Bill Gates is inviting me for sunday lunch. Sure enough… So I went to MSDN and registered. I was not expecting much. And a few minutes later came back an email saying that a person in microsoft (who I will not name at the moment, but who does Blog) has chosen me as an adoptee.

Sure, then I needed to provide some more details, but it is a start. I am impressed. I have yet to hear from this person in real life, but I would not expect anything but good things now that I have got this far. The reports are that there are so far 800 people who are prepared to be buddies in Microsoft already. Cool. Although I suspect that the demand will out-strip the supply