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MVPs need love like everything does : another year, another MVP summit, another delusions September 30, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. This week in Seattle area, USA, another yearly MVP summit takes place. MVP is an award being awarded mostly to "polite" (in the sense: uncritically Microsoft friendly), subdued people from community of fans of Microsoft products. MVP selection criteria process is also still vague and secretive, and based mostly on nepotism (at least in area of Windows Mobile). However most annoying thing is that during this MVP summit many Microsoft managers are giving a pep talk about "Microsoft being innovative" while reality (at least in area of Windows Mobile) is drastically different. 
Here are some examples that Microsoft's pep talk about innovation at the MVP summit is just a lie: Innovation? What about negative innovation: in Windows Mobile 5.0 Microsoft has removed "ActiveSync over Wi-Fi" capability that many thousands of Pocket PC users have used extensively in Windows Mobile 2003. Instead of making it "switched off by default" for security reasons, Microsoft removed it altogether. And person responsible for this big gaffe still has not been fired by Microsoft! This is not innovation, this is negative innovation: removing features, instead of adding them. Speaking of adding features: for several years users (and MVPs) were asking Microsoft to add "USB logical drive" feature so that file exchange between desktop computers (PC, Mac, Linux) and Windows Mobile could be carried out also without the need to install ActiveSync: after all ActiveSync is available only for Windows XP (not for Mac, not for Linux) and after all you cannot force all people to install ActiveSync (for example when user of Windows Mobile device is using a desktop computer at work or a computer for which he has no administrative rights). This is lack of innovation. Not innovation. These are just 2 examples of many and Microsoft MVPs themselves still have long lists of features that were requested years ago and still haven't been delivered by Microsoft: "I still have my list from last year, and a list that I keep updating myself...and none of the issues have been addressed in Windows Mobile 5" says Jason Dunn - one of the first Windows Mobile MVPs ever. Conclusion: while many Windows Mobile MVPs do not deserve getting this title at all, the most important issue however is that Microsoft is not listening to what community says as facts prove it. So this year's MVP summit, at least in Windows Mobile area, is once again just an exercise in delusions about innovations.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 8 Comments ]
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