Well, Ken Levy was here frequently and he felt comfortable enough to speak freely here about certain issues.

>I'm guessing that, while that would be ideal, the only forum with an MSFT representative is the MSDN forums since they are moderated by MSFT employees, are they not (I may well be wrong)? The UT is a private venture.
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>>>>The contact person for the UT is Aleksey Tsingauz. I know MS doesn't feel obliged to be present here, but it can't be denied that MS (Ken Levy and YAG) promised that Aleksey Tsingauz would be around here from time to time, to speak on their behalf.
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>>>Hi Peter,
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>>>Can you point me to the source? I wasn’t aware of the fact that I can speak on behalf of Ken Levy and YAG.
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>>Hi Aleksey,
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>>It is really a good thing that you bring this up. I have searched here and now see that it was actually Milind Lele who was brought to our attention, when Ken Levy became a product planner. I cannot speak on behalf of others, but at that time at least I got the idea that he would be the new guy to be around here to explain MS's POVs, as Ken had done up till that moment. In reality, Milind hasn't been around here frequently (his last post is from march 2006). You, on the other hand, was here frequently and I appear to have started to confuse the two of you. So, I have to apologize.
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>>Having admitted that, I now have a question. I'm of opinion that we, the developers here at the UT, really feel a need to have someone frequently among us who is from the VFP-devteam and is authorized to speak on behalf of the team. The current state of affairs appears to be that indeed someone (you) is frequently here, but does not feel authorized to speak on behalf, and that Milind Lele is not (no longer) frequent here. Can you speak about this issue internally in the team? I would really appreciate that.