Sometimes forums responders are Microsoft Employees and sometimes they will get Microsoft engineering involved with an issue. However that seems fairly rare that an employee will respond to a question which requires that involvement.
Also
John Qiao works at Pactera (Pactera is an IT consulting and outsourcing company with corporate headquarters in Beijing, China, and regional headquarters in North American, Europe, and Asia Pacific) and is not a Microsoft Employee. Although it seems
alot of Pactera employees appear to be Microsoft Contingent Staff for some reason.
I don't realize why you had a misunderstanding in your thread
How can I get rid of a TFS Folder Compare filter?
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Other than that to receive assistance from Microsoft directly you will have to pay for that. Whether the assistance ever reaches engineers that design and develop whatever you want assistance with is a different story.
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