Empower is for companies who will become Certified with the ISV Competency. The ISV Compentency is the only one that does not require a certified partner and the only one that can be obtained by having a single employee (yourself).

All other compentencies require having two certified people.

Just because your id is associated with your company does NOT mean that your CERTS are. That is a seperate process in which you have to give explicit permission for a company to use your CERTS.

But yes, your CERTS can only be assigned to one company at a time, but you don't need them for ISV because you need a certified product at the end of two years instead. BTW. The certified for Vista logo is $1,200 which is a shock since it was $10,000 for XP. I am still trying to find out if that logo gives you the automatic Gold Certified Partner status or not.

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