Where are all the Microsoft Networking MVPs?

There’s a gnarly networking question on stack overflow that I’ve since reposted on various Microsoft forums and so far I’ve had absolutely no useful response. Not even an “I don’t know, but I’ll look into it”.

I can understand that, perhaps, the issue may be a little bit technical for a support person who isn’t steeped in networking API knowledge; but where are the MVPs? Why isn’t there a Winsock MVP who can tell me that the bug has already been raised somewhere and might get fixed, or that it’s a known and desirable breaking change??

This issue looks to be a bug, IMHO, quite a subtle and serious one and one that has made its way into Windows 8 RTM. At this rate it will also be part of Windows Server 2012 RTM and we’ll all have to write convoluted code to spot the broken platform and work around it; then once it’s fixed in some obscure hotfix we’ll have to wait until a service pack comes out before we can spot that the platform we’re running on DOESN’T have the bug and thus run without the convoluted work around code. Bleugh!

And don’t get me started on how it’s practically impossible to work out WHERE I should be asking this question….