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From: nntp on 4 May 2010 15:26
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: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 5 May 2010 01:58
[Figures that this'd show up several hours after it'd been posted...as a
duplicate!]

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.

From: Hot-text on 5 May 2010 02:42
GOOD BY microsoft.public.windowsupdate

See you in the Forums "PA Bear [MS MVP]" you all remember always have
good InFo is the right way to help the OP!


<nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:u0NVup$6KHA.2240(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.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.
>
From: Hot-text on 5 May 2010 02:44
see you all way Right PA Bear

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u$sUckB7KHA.4208(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> [Figures that this'd show up several hours after it'd been posted...as a
> duplicate!]
>
> 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.
>
From: robinb on 5 May 2010 19:54

as long as ms tells us where windows update will now be- I do not mind
finding it via the browser instead of the newsgroup
robin
"Hot-text" <hot-text(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:44320319-36F0-4235-B0A2-A31E45F17961(a)microsoft.com...
> GOOD BY microsoft.public.windowsupdate
>
> See you in the Forums "PA Bear [MS MVP]" you all remember always have
> good InFo is the right way to help the OP!
>
>
> <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:u0NVup$6KHA.2240(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.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.
>>
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