>However, MVP is not an industry award, but a Microsoft award. I do agree that if it was an industry award, more transparency would be needed.
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>Does MS provide benefits and prestige to people it decides show excellence? If yes, then a visible process would be expected in most professions/industries if such an award is expected to be credible. If no, then it's irrelevant. I'm not sure how your comment above fits in.


Good Grief! The process is not an open one and you know it; however, the award is credible and the holders are looked to as experts in their field of award. the absence of a "visible process" does not make it any less credible. Its the people who make it credible, not the process.