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Microsoft has revoked the Most Valuable Professional status of an Australian developer who publicly complained that the programme was effectively asking members to spread marketing material.
The software programmer, Geoffrey Huntley, took exception to Microsoft’s efforts last week in the following tweet.
I see the microsoft #mvpaward program has completed its de-evolution into outright providing content to influencers and asking them to spread it. pic.twitter.com/SqMBSDgLmy geoff (@GeoffreyHuntley) April 15, 2021
“There was an upcoming product release announcement by AWS and the program asked members to amplify a PR campaign that Microsoft SQL server runs best on Azure,” he added in another tweet, which concluded: “Like go out & blog about why azure and SQL server is the thing over AWS offerings.”