MS cutting MVP benefits again

[The poster formerly known as 'Th]

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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DRM and unintended consequences:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security...435&tag=nl.e101

 

[Rick Rogers]

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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> 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/security...435&tag=nl.e101