Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
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From: nntp on 28 May 2010 16:37 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/ Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown? All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased approach, starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more active ones throughout the course of the next six months. 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/windowsxp 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: Tim Meddick on 28 May 2010 17:05 Love the "subject line" !! "Final Reminder...." .....sounds like an unwelcomed red-letter on the doormat! Love the way you sought the opinions and responses of users of M$ Newsgroups - if you had put as much energy into finding out what your (ever-fading) supporters in these groups thought, as you do with your "corporate-style questionnaires" for "user-satisfaction", then you would know by closing these groups with NO CONSULTATION you have [probably] alienated a whole new section of your once-wholesome support-base! You make me want to go buy an iPod! All the best for your next crazy decision,... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message news:u0sG9no$KHA.1448(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > < clipped > .....message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin > discontinuing > newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. > > < clipped > > Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. > > < clipped >
From: Tim Meddick on 28 May 2010 17:18 Goodbye everybody!! Sorry for my appalling "netiquette" that has been so much of a pain to those intent on educating the rest of us... But it has been [great] fun, all in all, and I have really enjoyed working to help people with their IT problems, here, over the past year that I have been using : microsoft.public.basic.dos microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration.manage microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers microsoft.public.windowsxp.general on newsserver : msnews.microsoft.com But no more......this is it!........goodbye.........forever!! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
From: Stan Brown on 28 May 2010 19:30 On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:05:54 +0100, Tim Meddick wrote: > <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:u0sG9no$KHA.1448(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > > > < clipped > .....message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin > > discontinuing > > newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. > > > > < clipped > > > Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. > > > > < clipped > > Love the way you sought the opinions and responses of users of M$ > Newsgroups - if you had put as much energy into finding out what your > (ever-fading) supporters in these groups thought, as you do with your > "corporate-style questionnaires" for "user-satisfaction", then you would > know by closing these groups with NO CONSULTATION you have [probably] > alienated a whole new section of your once-wholesome support-base! Typical Microsoft arrogance. I don't know *everything* there is to know about Usenet, but I don't see how even Microsoft can unilaterally close a newsgroup. Servers won't stop carrying it simply because Microsloth isn't feeding into it. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai...
From: Rick on 28 May 2010 21:07
Tim Meddick wrote: > Love the "subject line" !! > > "Final Reminder...." > > ....sounds like an unwelcomed red-letter on the doormat! > > Love the way you sought the opinions and responses of users of M$ > Newsgroups - if you had put as much energy into finding out what your > (ever-fading) supporters in these groups thought, as you do with your > "corporate-style questionnaires" for "user-satisfaction", then you would > know by closing these groups with NO CONSULTATION you have [probably] > alienated a whole new section of your once-wholesome support-base! > > You make me want to go buy an iPod! > > All the best for your next crazy decision,... > > == > > Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) > > > > > <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:u0sG9no$KHA.1448(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> >> < clipped > .....message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon >> begin discontinuing >> newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. >> >> < clipped > >> Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. >> >> < clipped > > It is the typical fashion that MS does business. Just like their OS's apparently it is not what the consumer wants. |