Hands off my youngin’ Microsoft!

My Golden Boy has a very interesting post of Microsoft going around him to reach the client he nominated for a promotion. Ouch. So not only are Microsoft partners completely abandoning the hope in Microsoft of ever developing secure software, combatting piracy, direct competition on ISV and service fronts but we must now even filter out the promotions we participate in? Bad PR move guys, very bad PR move. You can play dirty with your customers all you want, but if you go against your partners they just might find alternatives you so desperately do not want them to see. But why a bad PR move? Well, if you're going to mess with someones business I'd expect you to pick on JimmyBob Budlight, the Action Pack pirate. I would not expect you to go after an influential Gold Certified Partner that reaches over 20,000 partners a week. Update: Now I wish this person had left their name so we can follow up on this, so at the time I am going to call this BS. But anybody else with experience similar to below:

I had the SAME thing happen and my client conferenced me in. Apparently they wanted to make sure that the work they needed done was taken care of by a partner with the most competence in that field. They were going to take my customer and send them over to another partner. Great.