The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Program is an award and recognition program run by Microsoft. Microsoft MVPs are volunteers who have been awarded for providing technical expertise towards communities supporting Microsoft products or technologies. An MVP is awarded for contributions over the past year. The Microsoft Corporation, commonly known as just Microsoft, (NASDAQ: MSFT&selected= MSFT MSFT, HKSE: 4338&WidCoAbbName=&Month=&langcode=e 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44. ...
The MVP program grew out of the developer community: rumor has it the initials stood for "Most Voluble Professional", as the initial MVPs were some of the most active on the online peer support communities such as Usenet and CompuServe. It has since grown to include other types of products, and other avenues of contribution. A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... CompuServe, (in full, CompuServe Information Services, or CIS), was the first major commercial online service in the United States, dominating the field during the 1980s and remaining a major player through the mid-1990s when it was sidelined by the rise of GUI-based services such as America Online (AOL). ...
A posting from Tamar Granor on the Universal Thread web site gives this account of the origin of the MVP program.
"Way back in the dark ages, Microsoft provided a great deal of technical support on CompuServe. The CompuServe FoxPro forum was extremely busy and Calvin Hsia, then an independent developer, now Developer Lead on the Fox team, created what we called "Calvin's List." It was a listing of the number of postings by person, including info on both messages sent and received. Being in the top 10 on Calvin's List any month was an accomplishment, though we discussed whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
As the story goes, some of the Microsoft people jumped on Calvin's List as a way to identify high contributors, and thus was born the MVP program. Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language by Microsoft. ...
In sports, a MostValuable Player (MVP) award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests.
Initially used in professional sports, the term is now also commonly used in amateur sports, as well as in other completely unrelated fields of endeavor such as business and music awards.
MVP is also a title given in the MMORPG Ragnarok Online to a player that deals and takes most damage in a fight with a boss monster.
The Microsoft MostValuableProfessional (MVP) Program is an award and recognition program run by Microsoft.
An MVP is awarded for contributions over the past year.
The MVP program grew out of the developer community: rumor has it the initials stood for "MostValuableProfessional", as the initial MVPs were drawn from the online peer support communities such as Usenet and CompuServe.
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