As Cathy said, just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. I've learned over the years that I can be much more effective by not pushing people against the wall. You can be sure that Microsoft has heard me (and plenty of others) over and over about their failure to market the product.Can you show us the message/s where your efforts on our behalf were described? I don't remember any. How are people supposed to see the light if it's kept under a bushel?
Even if leaders are fatalistic about initiatives like the "open letter" to MS some years back or the current masfox initiative, as leaders it's important to "participate" and explain actions. Many MVPs have done that, but many more are again conspicuous by their absence. Why? Are they ignoring the tiresome rabble, or are they MS poodles reluctant to create a stink, or what is the reason for "leaders" shunning a grass-roots effort? With no explanation provided, people draw their own conclusions.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1