>>>Frankly, I was expecting to see "MVP" somewhere in the signature.
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>I guess you're thinking of the people with MVP in their sig turning up here to extol the virtues of Vista and Windows 8 until even MS had to agree they were in fact flops? Or some of the same people repeating the party line about VFP being too difficult to modernize or debug, until a part timer in China produced a 64-bit variant and fixed the known bugs himself? Including a very old phantom debug breakpoint bug that stuck around forever once it appeared?
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>The irony is I don't think MS asks or even wants these people to spout, they just do it I guess to prove their loyalty. Not all of them- there were some maverick VFP MVPs and there's a local SQL Server MVP who doesn't exhibit MS fanboi colors AFAICS. Even if he did (does?) extol the virtues of SP using inefficient clumsy typed datasets for data work. ;-)

MS is as MS does. These people were surely sicced upon the VFP community at some point, and I won't go into what incentive there was for them. But since the behavior hasn't stopped - heck, there's a job description of 'evangelist' in Microsoft - I'll just keep my doubts.

Zealous marketing minds have already spoiled things bigger than the joy of programming. And if MS doesn't rein them in, that's their doing. MS is as MS does.