M$ Ending Open Discussion Newsgroups!
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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 4 May 2010 18:30 cf. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx Dhu Pin Yoo wrote: > Joining the leagues of censorship activists, obviously. > > - > "Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style > newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion > forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN > sites. > > Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have > past their time in terms of being usable and secure." > > More at > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm
From: LD5SZRA on 4 May 2010 18:42 I would only say that Microsoft is fed up of its customer base and is deciding to wind-up its business. The examples are as follows: 1) Newsgroups shutting down; 2) IE8 not available to XP users (Mozilla and other browsers will continue on XP systems) 3) Outlook Express not being developed 4) Hotmail can't be read in Outlook unless you also install a Connector (new version just released on 20/04/2010) 5) If you criticize Microsoft products on forums, expect your messages to be deleted; 6) MVP status being scaled down (hooray - who is going to miss this? Not me for sure but Pig-Bear will) 7) Future products will only available online not on CD or DVDs 8) Microsoft Works version 10 not available on XP or Vista 9) Microsoft Office Accounting disbanded - the last version was 2009; The list goes on and on! hth Dhu Pin Yoo wrote: > > Joining the leagues of censorship activists, obviously. > > - > "Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style > newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion > forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN > sites. > > Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have > past their time in terms of being usable and secure." > > More at > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm -- THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright LD5SZRA 2010.
From: spamlet on 4 May 2010 19:05 First I'd heard of this. I hope these 'forums' will not degenerate into the form they take in so called 'Google help'; Google Earth 'community' etc. Questions used to get answered but when I've looked at these lately, they were all questions and no answers. The virgin help newsgroups were excellent but have recently been shut; now it appears these excellent groups are for the chop too. Not my idea of progress in the least! S "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:OUkW8o96KHA.3924(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > cf. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx > > Dhu Pin Yoo wrote: >> Joining the leagues of censorship activists, obviously. >> >> - >> "Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style >> newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion >> forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN >> sites. >> >> Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have >> past their time in terms of being usable and secure." >> >> More at >> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm
From: sgopus on 4 May 2010 19:59 it couldn't possbly be due to all the jerks and idiots who post garbage on these areas for their fun and entertainment, annoying the rest of the users. I'm personally glad they are ending these newsgroups, however, the format of the group for windows 7 sucks big time, you can hardly find anything, and people want to put their entire message in the subject line, and in all caps, idiots!!!!! "Dhu Pin Yoo" wrote: > > Joining the leagues of censorship activists, obviously. > > - > "Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style > newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion > forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN > sites. > > Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have > past their time in terms of being usable and secure." > > More at > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm > > . >
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 4 May 2010 21:05
At some point in the future, this newsgroup will NOT be accessible or available via the MS newsserver (news://msnews.microsoft.com) nor via web-access (http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general). spamlet wrote: > First I'd heard of this. I hope these 'forums' will not degenerate into > the > form they take in so called 'Google help'; Google Earth 'community' etc. <snip> |