I am having trouble loging in. I recieved my welcome email about 2 weeks ago,

with my loge in information. The email said that my membership was already

activated and that I would be kept on the program for 6 months. I logged in

succesfully the first time right after I recieved the welcome email, and haven't

been able to loge in since. What should I do?

Once you submit your Request a Buddy profile, no further login is necessary. As soon as you're matched and your new buddy send you a welcome email, you just need to touch base with them regularly via email.

Per our records, you were matched on Saturday, December 31st so you should receive a welcome email this week. You can check out the Program Guidelines to find out more about the program and what to expect from it on http://msdn.com/isv/isvbuddy.

-brenda (ISV Buddy Program)

Greetings,

3 months and I'm still waiting.

I?? a fool, I still look for an email everyday, as I love the idea and can use the help.

Really I trusted MS to do what they said they would and I still want to.

Mike Greenway

Hello All, especially Brenda!

I am really glad to see that Microsoft have that much interest atleast to know about the experience of us with the ISV Buddy Program.

I thank Microsoft for that and Brenda, for starting the thread!

I have been waiting approximately for 3+ months. I have received nothing from ISV Buddy Program. It seems no one wants to be my Buddy here in Microsoft.

So, my experience is *NOT* good at all.

"Congratulations! You have successfully registered for Microsoft ISV Buddy!

We are happy to have you as a member of the program. We look forward to creating an outstanding partner experience for you. Unless your new buddy is out of the office for some reason, you can expect to receive a welcome email from your buddy within one to two weeks."

It was a lie in my case. 

So, out of frustration, I have requested new buddy named, Matt Hawley who's role is Development and lives in United States. Is he going to response me?

Thanks.

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Tanzim Saqib

  Hi Brenda,

  I recieved my email, with assigned buddy as Valerie Wolley, but it also said

that my buddy may be changed, because she may be leaving the program.

I am waiting to hear from Valerie. Thanks for your responce.

This will be more efficient in email. I'll send an update offline via email.

-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)

 Thanks Brenda, will look for your email.

  Hi Brenda,

 I recieved your email, thanks for your responce. I am especially interested in

learning more about microsoft office excell 2003, as I am a writer and use

the documents and clip art parts a lot. There is a lot of features in microsoft

office that I don't know how to use. And, that little paperclip guy ( office

assistant ), as cute as he may be, isn't much help sometimes, because

when I ask ( type ) him a question, he returns 20 possible answers to my one

question. Sometimes, I am not sure which one is the correct answer. I love

microsoft and their products, but, the ones I use most is office and music.

I always listen to wmplayer while I work in office. So, anyway, these are the

areas that I want my buddy to help me with. And Brenda, you are doing a

great job with this buddie program, and microsoft, in my opinion, does

great on everything.

I would like to know how long does the process take to get an ISV Buddy. I signed up a little over a week ago and haven't heard anything.

What is the typical time frame? I'm very excited about doing this and would like to get started ASAP.

Thank You,

Hi,

It all depends on availability and flexibility. There has to be an available employee in the program with at least one item from each category on their profile that matches yours. Sometimes a match is immediate and sometimes it can take a month or more.

If you want to contact me at budsup@microsoft.com I'll look over your profile and try to find you a match manually.

-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)