Hey folks,

I got this from an internal MS Employee recently concerning this post:

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Come on.

If you want me to visit the site, show me the value, call out the benefits, suggest some of the cool samples that are there.  You’re just begging; I read this blog as “I’ll get fired unless I prove to my manager that I’m promoting our stuff, so please click this button to help me save my job”.  Ok, that’s harsh, but that’s what I see between the lines.  Either promote it based on its value to users (without any appeal to hit stats or whatnot), or else maybe it is just not a valuable resource.

Also, I am generally highly suspicious of bit.ly links and other url-manglers, and tend to search for the content myself rather than click thru a redirector.  This is a bad way to measure, IMO.

Anyway, those are my thoughts as a random developer/customer – you’re just driving me away with this blog post.

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I thought I would calrify a few points:

A)  I won't get fired if you don't visit the links and just thought it would be fun to let you in on my world a bit.

B)  I consider our development story on Windows Phone 7 to be an extremely cool one which I would hope kind of stands on it's own but if I need to say it again then here it is : Developing on Windows Phone 7 totally freaking rocks from my perspective

C)  I have to agree on the bit.ly thing it does suck as a measurement tool but we tried a bajillion other methods of measurement and they all pretty much sucked so this is the less sucky of the bunch--trust me.

You all know how I roll with this stuff so here is the deal:  If this you think this post sucks, let me know in the comments and if most of the comments agree with this guy then I will absolutely remove the post.  After all, I have come to trust your judgement on this stuff (you all helped name the book after all) and I want to have stuff out there that is either informative, entertaining, or both.  Let me know.