I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work

The Register's reporting on the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) commission collapse has been the most data-rigorous coverage in the trade press. And the trajectory it documented ($2.5 billion in LSP commissions in 2023, $1.67 billion in 2024, $583 million in 2025, zero in 2026) is the financial signature of a structural transition I have seen...

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