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> Where I used to get weekly updates, and focused, useful, invitations to what are called “Product Group Interactions” — stuff about the new WDK or changes to O
by jesseryoung 8y ago
> Where I used to get weekly updates, and focused, useful, invitations to what are called “Product Group Interactions” — stuff about the new WDK or changes to OS features — I now get an endless stream of invitations to SQL and SharePoint events.
If I had to wager why it seems like the MVP program dieing (I have no clue if it is, this is the first post I've ever read about the MVP meta) it has to do with this point the author called out.
I suspect that, at least in its early days, the MVP program help guide product development teams. In return for helping guide development, these MVP's were given preferential treatment over other customers and access to insider information. Now that Microsoft is (at least appearing) more open, they can get their feedback from their open source communities.
- WorldMaker 8y agoNot just open source communities, given that Microsoft spun out a lot of the "early interaction/feedback" stuff into the broader, easier to opt-in/opt-out Insider programs.
- wvenable 8y agoEven Stackoverflow kills the need for MS MVPs. In the dinosaur days before SO, you'd have MVPs answering questions around the Internet or within their particular community.
- quickthrower2 8y agoBefore SO you had to scroll down on ExpertSexChange
- logronoide 8y agoMVP is an anachronism. A legacy of the old Microsoft, when a monopoly had to build the entire community around his brand. Nowadays open communities cannot be driven, Microsoft knows this and I think the MVP program does not fit in this new Microsoft focused on services as it is.