I agree entirely with your blog entry. Microsoft can probably toss anyone out of the MVP program they choose, for any reason they choose, but it would be horrible publicity for them to do so for criticizing Microsoft about products that are no longer under NDA.


>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement
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>Basically, the NDA with Microsoft says they may tell us about upcoming products that they aren't ready to publically talk about, so we can't either. For example, at the recent MVP Summit, the VB team showed some stuff they are thinking about for VB 10. I can't tell you exactly what they showed because it isn't public.
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>>An interesting post from Craig Berntson, Microsoft to clamp down on MVP bloggers? http://www.craigberntson.com/blog/2007/03/microsoft-to-clamp-down-on-mvp-bloggers.asp
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>>There he says : "As an MVP, I was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and can't talk about many things Microsoft tells me. If an MVP breaks that NDA, then he should be dropped from the program."
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>>What does this "NDA" consist of ?