Let's face it, MSFT is dropping all of their eggs into the cloud basket and, whilst this isn't necessarily a bad thing, the byproduct is what the MVP sees: Invi

Let's face it, MSFT is dropping all of their eggs into the cloud basket and, whilst this isn't necessarily a bad thing, the byproduct is what the MVP sees: Invitations to things like roadmaps for COSMOS DB, which is almost purely an Azure service and has nothing to do with the scope of the MVP's expertise. Others have suggested that SO and the OSS community, in general, are much wider audiences for MSFT to receive feedback from and that's not, inherently, true. MSFT still avails of things like the BETA program[0], so they still (seemingly) recognise that they have a need for that feedback loop (for the most part). What seems to happen at Microsoft is constant culture shifts, based purely on who's making the most money at the time. In the previous years, it was Office that was the top dog, now it's Azure and, not surprisingly, things are changing in the company to push the biggest seller. The byproduct of that, of course, is that everything else gets thrown to the wayside by chasing these new endeavours (by constantly changing directions) and not having a plan to fluidly bring everything forward and inline. [0] - https://www.onmsft.com/news/join-microsofts-pre-release-beta-program-office-and-help-make-next-version-better https://www.onmsft.com/news/join-microsofts-pre-release-beta...