Microsoft has reportedly laid off about 60 partner account managers leaving smaller resellers confused about how they will be doing business with the company. The buzz is that there are still reps for nationally managed AX VARs, but everybody else is left with little way of interfacing with the company outside of websites. This is being read as a further step towards the validation of the view that AX is the favored child and that Dynamics GP, SL and NAV are somewhere down the list.