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Another Review of the WPC

P2P pioneer Arlin Sorensen was at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last week and has a nice recap of the show on his blog, Peer Power.

As a key member of the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community, Arlin had a pretty positive take on one particular aspect of the new Microsoft Partner Network. "They are putting Small Business where it belongs -- as a real competency -- and appear to be raising the bar a bit, as well, which is welcome," Sorensen writes.

Check out the rest of his entry here.

Posted by Scott Bekker on July 20, 2009


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