It is because of your effort and solely because of your own effort that they are listening. Had you not presented the content, gotten people to fill out the survey, filtered it out, taken to Microsoft, yada, yada, yada none of this would be happening.

And guess what - the monkey on the receiving end at Microsoft is nodding at you like a sipping bird and doesn’t want to do anything stupid before he gets a promotion.

In the end, this effort dies with you when you get defeated like so many that have tried to work with Microsoft.

So turn the community intensity from the Spinal Tap 11 to maybe the folk festival 3 that is your average SMB conference and focus on some long term goals with Microsoft.

Otherwise you just sound like yet another MVP who got the mic and sucked all the oxygen out of the room with his statement.

-Vlad
P.S. Believe me, speaking from experience on all counts of insanity you’re displaying

Hey man! Thanks for that post. Working a t-shirt angle right now, but not getting much of anywhere yet.

To answer your question…

YES there will be another survey for folks who didn’t see the presentation, once the video stream is available.

No ETA yet on it. The video was professionally recorded, and is in editing right now, I think.

As soon as it’s available tho, all of you here at the Funcave will be the first ones to know!

Thanks for expressing your interest. MS and the WM team are showing real interest in this.

And NOT because of me or the talk I gave…

But because of ALL OF YOU and the interest Y’ALL ARE SHOWING!

That’s how all this really works.

Eminently cool to see all this happening.

Yummy!

Where’s the obligatory t-shirt for filling out the survey?

Hmm… I didn’t attend the session - what about a survey for those of us that rely on Mobility and are inspired by what you’re trying to achieve and want o add our voices?