>>curtail your use of the private channel as regards ERs and bugs.
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>You've made it clear how abandoning the MVP program would benefit you. But the questions that matter are: how does this benefit Microsoft and how does it affect the return on their investment on MVPs?

Mike,

I think we only need to harken back a few years when Microsoft was going to do away with the MVP program. What happened? The community rose up and said that it was a bad idea. Do I mean to imply that everyone thought it was a bad idea? No, but the vast majority did. As a result, the program remained.