MS cutting MVP benefits again

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4019

Microsoft is trimming some of the benefits it is offering to
participants in its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, no doubt
due to cost-cutting measures affecting the company overall. In a note to
MVPs (posted on the ActiveWin.com site), Microsoft claims to be
“expanding our investment in the MVP Award Program” with a new online
MVP portal coming next year. But in the same note, officials acknowledge
that they are cutting a number of the “less significant” benefits, as of
October 1, including Company Store (MVP Bucks), E-Academy, E-Reference
Library and MS Press Book Reviews. The worldwide MVP conference is not
cancelled; it’s on for mid-February 2010 (but in Redmond/Bellevue, not
in Seattle).

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"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
- Linus Torvalds

DRM and unintended consequences:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/se...35&tag=nl.e101

Andy Huang wrote:
>
> You're an idiot.
> Free software is not like cex, it's like Communism.

You are the idiot. First of all you can't spell worth a ****. Second,
you have no ****ing clue how to change your clock.

Third, when you try to have sex, your hand rejects YOU so you have to
settle for Sheep.

You're an idiot.
Free software is not like cex, it's like Communism.

Again? Don't know that I've ever seen them significantly cut benefits
before.

Don't know of a single MVP asking to leave the program due to this cutback
(completely understandable given the current economic climate). Must be we
do it for other reasons.....

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4019
>
> Microsoft is trimming some of the benefits it is offering to participants
> in its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, no doubt due to
> cost-cutting measures affecting the company overall. In a note to MVPs
> (posted on the ActiveWin.com site), Microsoft claims to be "expanding our
> investment in the MVP Award Program" with a new online MVP portal coming
> next year. But in the same note, officials acknowledge that they are
> cutting a number of the "less significant" benefits, as of October 1,
> including Company Store (MVP Bucks), E-Academy, E-Reference Library and MS
> Press Book Reviews. The worldwide MVP conference is not cancelled; it's on
> for mid-February 2010 (but in Redmond/Bellevue, not in Seattle).
>
> --
> "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
> - Linus Torvalds
>
> DRM and unintended consequences:
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/se...35&tag=nl.e101