Please see my reply to Cesar for a more complete discussion of what an NDA is. I think the original question sort of got lost in personal reminiscences.


>So, do they tell you to keep it hush-hush before they show something? Or are most things considered hush-hush?
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>>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 ?