I've had it with broken partner directories
A little while ago, Microsoft wrote to me and asked me to test their latest partner finder solution. If you're a partner, then I'm sure they wrote to you too. Well I tested it, and guess what? It was broken. In fact, it was so completely and utterly broken that it was only finding 5 small business specialists in the whole of UK (I know for a fact that there are several hundred).
I gave feedback. Nothing has happened. It still doesn't find my company or any others in South Wales.
Look, Microsoft: it's not that your tool needs tweaking - IT DOESN'T WORK AT ALL. Don't you think this is an urgent situation? Why can't we go back to the old tool, which worked pretty well and really didn't need changing? Moreover, don't you think you owe it to your partners to actually TEST these things before you unleash them on us and our customers? Gadzooks! Are you having these search tools coded by an infinite number of monkeys?
This is highly unprofessional and a bad show. And I'm not the only person who thinks so.
[UPDATE: I have received notes today from some of the UK small business team that the problem is being worked on. In all fairness, they are a great bunch and they do listen to us]