Tuesday, April 05, 2005
It's marketing...or is it?
Yesterday, Microsoft posted a survey regarding VFP. I blogged it here and encouraged you to take it. I also posted a thread about it on one of the online forums that I regularly visit.
This morning, I got an email from the forum owner, telling me that my post was "marketing" and that it wasn't allowed. The thread had been deleted. My reply to him was that it wasn't totally marketing. The survey, while managed, run, and developed by Microsoft marketing, is designed to improve the technical aspects of VFP. The more people that respond to the survey, the better the results.
That reply caused the forum owner to call me. He said that a forum member had flagged the message as being "inappropriate and not technical". He had reviewed it and decided that the forum member was correct. To this forum member, I say, "Shame on you!" You should be doing everything you can to improve VFP. That includes encouraging others to express your technical needs to Microsoft.
But, you decide...is the recent survey purely marketing or not? You know where I stand.
This morning, I got an email from the forum owner, telling me that my post was "marketing" and that it wasn't allowed. The thread had been deleted. My reply to him was that it wasn't totally marketing. The survey, while managed, run, and developed by Microsoft marketing, is designed to improve the technical aspects of VFP. The more people that respond to the survey, the better the results.
That reply caused the forum owner to call me. He said that a forum member had flagged the message as being "inappropriate and not technical". He had reviewed it and decided that the forum member was correct. To this forum member, I say, "Shame on you!" You should be doing everything you can to improve VFP. That includes encouraging others to express your technical needs to Microsoft.
But, you decide...is the recent survey purely marketing or not? You know where I stand.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 8:09:00 AM 
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