Hi, Bill-

Thanks for the words of encouragement. As one of the MVPs said, it feels like I've been fired from a job I love.

There are something like 600+ MVPs worldwide for all the MS products...though NOT for Minesweeper as best as I can tell < bg>. There is a lot of group planning going on for what to do from here on out. All the product area MVPs feel utterly betrayed, and hopefully, it might actually result in us all working together to keep support strong.

In any case, I think all of feel the same about this, we do what we do regardless of the MVP designation. So, I don't think our community will be in anyway harmed by this.

One benefit is that solutions may even be more robust, since there won't be any necessity to take a product-line approach. That is my hope.

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