Congratulations to 2005 MVPs

Microsoft has released its list of MVP Members. Lots of familiar names on the list, and they all deserve a hearty thanks for their efforts to help other people.

I wish Microsoft would make this list more useful, however. Two options come immediately to mind:

  1. Add direct links and links to RSS feeds for those MVPs who have Web sites or blogs. It would be really helpful.
  2. Add links to searches for newsgroup threads that include posts by each member. You can learn a lot that way. Here, for example, is a search that includes all threads in the Outlook Express group that include the name of MVP Tom Koch.

If you haven’t used the Web-based Expert Zone newsreader, by the way, you’re missing out.