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Windows Live MVP

Oct 1, 2011 9:46 am by Kip Kniskern | 14 comments

LiveSide.net and the MVP program have a long history. Before there was a Windows Live MVP program, a group of beta testers who came to be known as the MSN (and later Windows Live) Butterflys served to test and give feedback (on what at that time was quite an onslaught of Windows Live programs and products), and the original members of LiveSide met through those programs. Some of those “Butterflys” went on to become the first MSN MVPs, and then in turn Windows Live MVPs, including LiveSide contributors Chris Overd, Harrison Hoffman, Scott Lovegrove, Matthew Weyer, and myself.

Along with the twists and turns in the Windows Live program itself, the Windows Live MVP program has had a somewhat tumultuous history, and our relationship with the MVP program was ended after the 2008 award cycle. Cornelia Koopmans (Sunshine) and PicturePan2 from LiveSino.net were awarded MVPs last year (and reawarded today), and today, I received an email awarding me a Windows Live MVP for 2011 (October cycle).

Of course we’ll continue to do what we do here at LiveSide, which is to bring you the latest news and information on Windows Live and Microsoft’s online services. I’m looking forward to becoming re-acquainted with some old friends at the MVP Summit next February, and as always we’re looking forward to the next chapters of Windows Live. Stay tuned!

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Anonymous
congratz! :)
Vasudev
Congrats to Kip, Sunshine , PicturePan2 !!
http://twitter.com/surilamin surilamin
Congrats to both of you :)
http://jvd897.blogspot.com jvd897
Congratulations, everyone! Well-deserved.
http://www.windowsobserver.com/ WinObs
Congrats to everyone on their renewals and your return Kip!
Mario Albertico
Well-deserved; my sincere congratulations to the three of you!
Anonymous
You are most deserving Kip… glad someone else recognized the fact as well.
May be the best news of the year!
http://twitter.com/harlemS Travis Pope
This awesome. Now I get to play practical jokes on you during summit!
Anonymous
I saw your bio on the MVP directory site today. Assuming I get renewed in January, I’d really like attend the MVP Summit this year. Maybe I’ll finally get a chance to shake your hand, sir!
Anonymous
I’ve always thought being an MVP was both a blessing and a curse, because you are privileged with communicating/working officially directly with Microsoft, but at the same time it makes it difficult if you’re in charge of a tech news site to report on leaks/rumors because of the conflict of interest.
- http://www.LiveSide.net Kip Kniskern – LiveSide.net
  From previous experience, and in talking to current MVPs, I can tell you that the “communicating directly with Microsoft” part is well overblown, and I was awarded for what we do here at LiveSide, which I fully intend to keep right on doing. I’m flattered, of course, and looking forward to another year as an MVP, but it’s an award, nothing more.
Hackersoft
Congrats kip. Long overdue.
http://www.LiveSide.net Kip Kniskern – LiveSide.net
Thanks, all!
http://www.guillaumeb.com/ GuillaumeB
Ah the good time of Microsoft MSN MVPs. That was fun indeed :) Congrats to the new ones