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From: nntp on 4 May 2010 15:24
Date 5/4/2010
Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs.

Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space.

We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions.

We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days.

From: Tim Roberts on 5 May 2010 01:28
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
>
>Date 5/4/2010
>Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing
>down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the
>rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide
>market trends and evolving customer needs.

I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed by this. It is hard for me to
think of a way to share technical information that is worse than web
forums.

Has anybody had a positive experience with Microsoft's Forum/NNTP
connector?
--
Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
From: Pavel A. on 6 May 2010 19:03
"Tim Roberts" <timr(a)probo.com> wrote in message
news:ed02u55a32t7k7qansvnjie7571ld5sgm3(a)4ax.com...
> nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
>>
>>Date 5/4/2010
>>Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing
>>down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the
>>rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide
>>market trends and evolving customer needs.
>
> I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed by this. It is hard for me to
> think of a way to share technical information that is worse than web
> forums.
>
> Has anybody had a positive experience with Microsoft's Forum/NNTP
> connector?
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

What is this connector? Once I've used the web based newsgroup reader -
like
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.development.device.drivers

with mixed feelings. The interface is good, but _much_ slower than nntp.
It's similar to Document Explorer compared to the .chm WDK documentation
:-(

The MSDN _forums_ have lot of quite interesting content, but their web
interface is next to ugly IMHO.

Regards,
-- pa


From: Don Burn on 6 May 2010 19:21
This is an NNTP bridge client that can be found at
http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums it provides a way for a
limited number of newsreaders to access forums.


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel A. [mailto:pavel_a(a)12fastmail34.fm]
> Posted At: Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:03 PM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
> Conversation: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online
Communities
> Subject: Re: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
>
> "Tim Roberts" <timr(a)probo.com> wrote in message
> news:ed02u55a32t7k7qansvnjie7571ld5sgm3(a)4ax.com...
> > nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
> >>
> >>Date 5/4/2010
> >>Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively
> >>closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations
> >>in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response
> >>to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs.
> >
> > I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed by this. It is hard for
me
> > to think of a way to share technical information that is worse than
> > web forums.
> >
> > Has anybody had a positive experience with Microsoft's Forum/NNTP
> > connector?
> > --
> > Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com
> > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> What is this connector? Once I've used the web based newsgroup reader
- like
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-
> us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
>
> with mixed feelings. The interface is good, but _much_ slower than
nntp.
> It's similar to Document Explorer compared to the .chm WDK
documentation :-(
>
> The MSDN _forums_ have lot of quite interesting content, but their web
> interface is next to ugly IMHO.
>
> Regards,
> -- pa
>
>
>
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From: Brausewetter, Kurt on 20 May 2010 06:21
i can't find it with the NNTP Bridge =>
microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
i use OL Express, can everybody help me... (please)



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