MS Office Discussion off for weeks
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From: VanguardLH on 2 Jul 2010 12:34 LeeCC wrote: > But I dont remember any announcements have been made on this change. The old > page is still there, but no messages. > > It would be more user-friendly if MS could splash a message on the old page > to inform users of this change. In the newsgroups that Microsoft announced their withdrawl from Usenet, there were posts titled "Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community". Rather than copy such a post, you can read this page: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx "Communities" is Microsoft's forum-to-Usenet gateway to provide a webnews-for-dummies interface to Usenet (aka newsgroups). Microsoft is scrambling away from their 4-year experiment in trying to usurp the 30-year old Usenet nad over which they could exercise no control. They are pulling back to providing just their web-based forums (for which there is NOT a 1-to-1 correspondence of microsoft.public.* newsgroups to their web-based forums; i.e., there are more newsgroups for which there is no matching forum). If you want to continue using Usenet, and because Microsoft is dropping their Communities via their webnews-for-dummies gateway to Usenet and will eventually kill off their NNTP server, you will need to use a newsreader to connect to a non-Microsoft NNTP server, like Albasani, Eternal-September, individual.net, Giganews or another NSP (newsgroups service provider). The microsoft.public.* newsgroups will continue to exist despite Microsoft leaving Usenet. Volume has decreased in the newsgroups but that does not equate to dead newsgroups. A newsgroup becomes dead when you don't get responses. You will be forced to stop using the webnews-for-dummies interface to Usenet since Microsoft is leaving Usenet. Don't bother connecting a newsreader (e.g., Outlook Express, Thunderbird, MesNews, Xnews, 40tude Dialog, Xananews, etc) to Microsoft's NNTP server because Microsoft is going to kill it off. Connect a newsreader to someone else's NNTP server. There are plenty to pick from. Otherwise, enjoy the inane and crippled interface afforded by Microsoft's withdrawl to web-based forums.
From: LeeCC on 2 Jul 2010 22:38 Thanks for all the responses and useful info. Hope MS will inform users well in advance when THIS forum closed. Lee CC --------------------------------------------------------- "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: > See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx & > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx > > LeeCC wrote: > > Hello! Friends > > > > Sorry for posting this question here. > > > > Anyone knows why MS Office Discussions have been off for weeks? When I > > logged on, I don't see any discussion topics there. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Lee CC > > . >
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 3 Jul 2010 02:03 YW. IE General got a two-day advance notice. Office Forums http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/group/Office WinXP Forums http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp NB: The IE and Windows Update forums are NOT Windows-specific (WinXP or otherwise) despite what you may see at the top of the forum pages or in the WU forum URL. [What were they thinking? Were they thinking?] LeeCC wrote: > Thanks for all the responses and useful info. > > Hope MS will inform users well in advance when THIS forum closed. > >> See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx & >> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx >> >> LeeCC wrote: >>> Hello! Friends >>> >>> Sorry for posting this question here. >>> >>> Anyone knows why MS Office Discussions have been off for weeks? When I >>> logged on, I don't see any discussion topics there.
From: Bob I on 6 Jul 2010 08:19
There were at least 3 postings in this group so far. LeeCC wrote: > Thanks for all the responses and useful info. > > Hope MS will inform users well in advance when THIS forum closed. > > > Lee CC > --------------------------------------------------------- > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: > > >>See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx & >>http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx >> >>LeeCC wrote: >> >>>Hello! Friends >>> >>>Sorry for posting this question here. >>> >>>Anyone knows why MS Office Discussions have been off for weeks? When I >>>logged on, I don't see any discussion topics there. >>> >>>Thanks. >>> >>> >>>Lee CC >> >>. >> |