>I have a really hard time agreeing with anything CraigB says.
>One who so blatantly shills anything Microsoft is always suspect.
>One would think he works for Microsoft and that his pay depends on always talking nice about Microsoft.
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>I'll grant you, Craig does some name dropping, but I think that's a little extreme.
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>Regardless, I think there's huge merit to what he said here.
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>Craig wrote a recent blog entry you might find interesting:
>http://www.craigberntson.com/blog/2007/03/microsoft-to-clamp-down-on-mvp-bloggers.asp

Oh, I read the topic on his blog the first day he mentioned it here.
I didn't see anything astounding in it. If this is meant to show that he can buck Microsoft sometimes, it doesn't make the grade. First, he was responding to a rumour by a third party.
Secondly, it has little to do with Microsoft products and services. And I would be very surprised if he actually did anything if Microsoft did 'clamp down' on MVPs. [he chose to do nothing when Microsoft stopped future development of VFP]

On the other hand CraigB claims to be an ardent VFP supporter. Yet he hasn't seen fit to join the other 157 Americans who have spent a measley 60 seconds of their time to sign the 'masFox' petition.
Oh sure, he **knows** it's a futile exercise and I suppose deems it a waste of his time. That's one clear way to show support for a product, wouldn't you say!
He wastes far more time writing his blog. Also to far far less potential effect.

His position is that Microsoft does no wrong. When a screw-up is mentioned he invariably attributes it to contractors.