Ryan’s off to Scotland this week, but Dave’s back from New Zealand. So Dave and I enjoyed a casual conversation about travel . . . and other Summer topics.
If you want business stuff, hang in til the end. In the meantime, we covered travel tips, bar-cades, video games, the Houston Space Center, and “Shows that are no longer with us.” We a bit of a deep dive on the McDonald’s Hamburger University.
We wandered down memory lane to some of our favorite conferences over the years. And that led to a discussion of the SMB relationship with Microsoft over the years.
Finally, we addressed a “real” technology topic: 4D printing. The site referenced is here: https://store.hp.com/app/tech-takes/4d-printing-already.
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Having a MSP with a Microsoft Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency, I have to disagree with you on Microsoft and the SMB community.
Yes, Microsoft has reorganized a few times in the last decade, and every time they pull the bar up for partners. However, to say Microsoft doesn’t have love the SMB space is inaccurate.
There are a number of session focused on SMB coming up at Inspire (https://myinspire.microsoft.com/sessions). Sure, you say, 16 out of 447 – but that’s definitely more than none. 😉
Thanks for the note, Derek! Sorry I’m just checking comments.
Personally, I think MS will pay a little more attention to SMB, but not much. They make more money being our direct competitors.
– Karl