Re: More lockin...
Not quite. CSP is pretty good as it just means you get a bill at the end of the month - much easier for a business than mucking around with credit cards. The other model of buying credits #60 at a time was a nightmare as it took so long for anything to be generated.
Really, the best thing MS could do would be to just simplify the whole lot. It's bad enough having 'classic' and the new deployment model for everything, on top of that everything is just too complex with lots of individual bits. Every time you logon to the portal something new appears.
Not sure why MS think this is such a good deal for resellers though - our margin has dropped from 20% to 8% since switching from the old model.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
