Grooming influential people to promote your corp and then bullying them when they didn't turn out to be just parroting your marketing slogans. Classic corporations.
Huh. As an MVP myself (of DRM lol) I have to agree that was a poor astroturfing idea of Microsoft's. Although one employee != Microsoft. In all my MVP years Microsoft has never asked me to do anything like that. They've sent me to cool parties and events, but never asked for me to do anything as a result.