Philip Richardson

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A quick update on the CRM for VARs sample. The Shared Source stuff is with the administriviologists and lawyers. Hopefully we will have an answer soon. I’m meeting with a powerful team (yes they have big horns) tomorrow to discuss collaborating on the sample.

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The Boss links to the recent CRN Article which hints at CRM being Microsoft’s next 1 billion dollar product. The size of the opportunity is certainly there and we (the team) along with Microsoft (the company) can certainly achieve it. What you won’t often hear is that revenue is often used within Microsoft as a symbol of power, much like the antlers on a deer. Big $$ = Big Horns.

BTW: Props to The Boss for taking the blogging stuff seriously. I’m impressed at his recent posting blitz. Frank has an interesting take on blogging from a manager’s perspective.

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I’ve made some minor changes to my
RSS infrastructure today. http://www.philiprichardson.org/blog/rss (which is in fact http://philiprichardson.org/blog/rss/default.aspx) is now a simple redirect to my new FeedBurner Feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhilipRichardson).

There shouldn’t be any impact on readers: however if you do encounter any RSS strangeness please use this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhilipRichardson. It is supplied from a private RSS feed on my site.

I’ve switched over to FeedBurner primarily for statistics. BlogBeat also has some FeedBurner integration. It will be nice to be able to give jaag (our Site Manager) some solid stats.

I doubt anyone will care: but CRM is now part of the Office Server Group. ALL our current plans, schedules, releases, milestones, office locations, features, code bases, brand, marketing team, price etc stay unchanged. The only difference is that our big boss has a new boss.

In my last job at Microsoft we used have a restructure every 2-3 months (once it only took 3 weeks to restructure again). In that group each restructure would cause complete havoc. I’m pleased to say that this restructure here in CRM was very smooth. Zero disruption! It’s a testament to our sensible management and results oriented approach.

This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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