What's up with Microsoft India?The passionate anonymous blogger Mini-Microsoft has been receiving comments on his blog from Microsoft employees in India and the picture they paint is bleak.
We have long been told of the tremendous potential of an
emerging technology superpower in India as many American companies have rushed to invest there.
Reading the comments on Mini's blog about Microsoft DPE I was nodding in agreement because I've met
Sanjay Parthasarathy and he's ultimately responsible for this mess.
I first met Sanjay at the 2004 Microsoft Partner conference in Toronto and he was very pleasant with a big smile as we talked about Channel 9. The following year in Minneapolis I tried to arrange a meeting, but he was too busy giving interviews with the Tech Trade Press. The same happened the next year in Boston, he had meeting after meeting with young woman from the Trade Press, but wouldn't talk to a blogger from the developer community. When he saw me at a party
he ran away, the next day I passed him in the hall and he gave me a big smile.
Before last years
Partner conference in Denver I emailed Microsoft PR repeatedly to set-up a meeting with Sanjay, but he was not meeting anyone and shortly after he left as the misleader of the DPE Team.