Architel has been supporting businesses throughout the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex since 2001, but we never signed up as a Microsoft Partner. Why? We don’t resell hardware or software so it didn’t seem that important. Christopher Lloyd joined our team and explained that there were lots of ways we could work with Microsoft despite our business model. He has been working on the partnership since January and we are now a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. We got a big box of stuff, including this banner we hung in the break room: