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From: nntp on 4 May 2010 15:32 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: Tecknomage on 5 May 2010 07:55 On Tue, 04 May 2010 12:14:41 -0700 (UTC), 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. > > 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. Yap. Give the dictator more control over us unruly citizens. "This decision is in response to .... evolving customer needs." What a laugh, it's about Microsoft wanting total control (read $$$$) via their "Live" forums. Zig Hail! -- ======== Tecknomage ======== Computer Systems Specialist IT Technician San Diego, CA
From: Leythos on 5 May 2010 09:54 In article <tem2u516dtvbgpeiqtue959f7e2m7ta25d(a)4ax.com>, tecknode(a)NOSPAM.com says... > Zig Hail! > Actually, I think it's in response to people like you. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Peter Foldes on 5 May 2010 13:37 +10 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.264b4299585db25898a330(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <tem2u516dtvbgpeiqtue959f7e2m7ta25d(a)4ax.com>, > tecknode(a)NOSPAM.com says... >> Zig Hail! >> > > Actually, I think it's in response to people like you. > > -- > You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little > voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. > Trust yourself. > spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Mark A. Sam on 7 May 2010 08:03
I used the new forum and found it difficult and annoying. No web application can work as well as a desktop client. It is unfortunate, but not surprising that Microsoft took this route. The reasoning a Microsoft must be, "if it aint broke, then fix it". <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message news:%23R7H6i$6KHA.2160(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > 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. > |