Months and months on, tech floggers still waiting to feel Microsoft's tool

Firms paid by Microsoft to sell its products are still waiting a brand-spanking-new business intelligence and analytics tool that the Redmond giant promised to deliver by February. The resellers had hoped the once crash-prone Microsoft's Partner Sales Exchange (PSE) would be improved by the addition of the new sales-tracking …

[Anonymous Coward]

That's how it feels

... when you have to use your own software.

[robynsveil]

Actually, really good point...

I write software I use myself - sort-of, if you can call an Asset Manager written in VBA (using forms and validation code, accessing Excel data) for our department 'software' - and at this point, I'm the only one using it. And constantly debugging it (I'm not a very good programmer :-/ ) ... it is close to the multi-user phase, now. When you write software for others, the testing is going to be hampered by 'your way of doing things'. However, if you actually use the software yourself, a lot of that problem diminishes with *time*.

This is the neat thing about Gambas - a GNU/Linux-based flavour of VB - the IDE is actually written in Gambas itself. And of course, it's open-source, so you can change the IDE to be what you need. And runs HEAPS cleaner than Excel 2000-2003 VBA.

[Goat Jam]

Re: Actually, really good point...

Good grief, it's near "multi-user phase" you reckon?

[IGnatius T Foobar]

"fell down" ?

"The system periodically fell down whenever too many partners were using it"

Of course it did. They were probably running it on Windows.

[Anonymous Coward]

How to get Microsoft into the Title ..

Six mentions of Microsoft and two mentions of Windows ...

[Magnus_Pym]

Timely Solution?

They already failed on that one. Now they are just struggling to come up with a solution at all. My guess is all the developers got pulled onto a higher priority project. Xbox one perhaps.