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From: nntp on 28 May 2010 12:35

Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch:
As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest
version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get
and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office,
from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You
can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you
purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a
new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run.

And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when
you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our
Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community
to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined
below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns
with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms

What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?
As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the
traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the
past several years while customers and participants are increasingly finding
solutions in the forums on Microsoft properties and third party sites. This
move will unify the customer experience, centralize content, make it easier
for active contributors to retain their influence, mitigate redundancies and
make the content easier to find by customers and search engines through
improved indexing. Additionally, forums offer a better user and spam
management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by encouraging a
healthy discussion in a clean community space. To this end, Microsoft will
begin to progressively shift available resources to the forums technology
and discontinue support for newsgroups.

In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
functionality. You can find instructions on how to download and set up the
NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/


When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.

Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the
same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups.
The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue
the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeoutlook

Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx

Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to
NNTP(a)microsoft.com
From: VanguardLH on 28 May 2010 13:29
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:

> Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.

So find yourself a non-Microsoft NSP since the microsoft.* newsgroups
will still be carried over there. Just ask the other NSP if they are
going to drop the microsoft.* newsgroups. Giganews isn't. Google
Groups won't. My NSP is not (nor are they honoring any 'rmgroup'
control messages from some self-anointed boob with delusions of admin
privileges). Microsoft doesn't control Usenet. That's why they are
leaving. That's why the microsoft.* newsgroups will still survive
despite Microsoft.
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 28 May 2010 13:47
"VanguardLH" <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote in message
news:htougm$ega$1(a)news.albasani.net...
> nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:

> So find yourself a non-Microsoft NSP since the microsoft.* newsgroups
> will still be carried over there. Just ask the other NSP if they are
> going to drop the microsoft.* newsgroups. Giganews isn't. Google
> Groups won't. My NSP is not (nor are they honoring any 'rmgroup'
> control messages from some self-anointed boob with delusions of admin
> privileges). Microsoft doesn't control Usenet. That's why they are
> leaving. That's why the microsoft.* newsgroups will still survive
> despite Microsoft.

Microsoft may not control USENET, but since their news server is the master
from which all other news servers pull these microsoft.public newsgroups, when
it closes, the groups will be useless.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

From: Gordon on 3 Jun 2010 02:40

"John" <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
news:jwolf6589-BD3275.20041802062010(a)msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <htougm$ega$1(a)news.albasani.net>, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH>
> wrote:
>
>> nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
>>
>> > Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
>>
>
> I hope you are right man. I dont want to use a web interface.

Well here we are on 3rd June and this group still seems to be functioning on
the MS news server...

From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 3 Jun 2010 07:24
"John" <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
news:jwolf6589-3A7982.20082102062010(a)msnews.microsoft.com...

> How can I access or configure my newsreader to access the forums through
> this NNTP bridge that MS speaks about? I have cc'd this to the Entourage
> group and the Mac group as I NORMALLY use a Macintosh. Thanks!!

I can't answer that, as I haven't downloaded the bridge yet and so don't know
what to expect.

> I like Usenet and do not always like web forums. Usenet is much faster
> and does not take as much bandwith.

NNTP servers are becoming fewer, with many ISPs dropping USENET entirely and
others charging extra. Eventually we may not have a choice.

I don't know if the bridge will perform comparably to a real NNTP server.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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