My last two entries were originally mistitled, and as such, garnered responses that were largely misdirected. I take no issue with the negative comments, but if you think I was lambasting either Microsoft or WinHEC, you might care to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
Few people actually understood what I was saying… that I was trying to point out a fact that going to WinHEC made me realize (and subsequently verbalize). WinHEC, itself, is not a problem – and I have no problem with WinHEC (or its auxiliary, PDC). I even went as far as to write that I am *NOT* a developer! Everything I wrote still stands – but depending on which side of the table you sit on, you're going to respond to any of my “Microsoft” assertions differently.
Try this: write something (ANYTHING) about Microsoft. Half of your readers will slap you around for being too supportive of the company, and the other half will slap you around for being too critical of the company… BASED ON THE SAME POST! It's not so much what I write, it's how you project yourself onto what I write.
There are gaping holes in Microsoft's user engagement strategies. If I didn't care, I wouldn't say anything about it. If I didn't want to help, I wouldn't say anything about it. If I didn't think it mattered, I wouldn't say anything about it.