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Microsoft Matchmaker Links Partners

Microsoft already has Pinpoint, a directory that lets customers find partners. Now, it has (fairly quietly, once again) launched Matchmaker, which helps partners find each other. Why Microsoft doesn't make a bigger deal out of these things -- most of the potential customers your editor talks to for Redmond magazine have never heard of Pinpoint -- we don't know, but we're getting the word out now.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 28, 2009


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