Again, MVP is NOT an industry award. It is a Microsoft award. Any company can thank customers however they want as long as it is legal. Yes, I referred to it as a MS award. As I (and other posters) keep saying,
nobody objects if MS decides to reward people or appoint them as advisors. However, as I also keep saying, the award seems to annoint experts as well. It is unusual in any industry for a vendor to decide who the experts are- even in use of the vendor's own tools.
"... 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
