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From: nntp on 19 May 2010 05:44

What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?
As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the
traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the
past several years while customers and participants are increasingly finding
solutions in the forums on Microsoft properties and third party sites. This
move will unify the customer experience, centralize content, make it easier
for active contributors to retain their influence, mitigate redundancies and
make the content easier to find by customers and search engines through
improved indexing. Additionally, forums offer a better user and spam
management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by encouraging a
healthy discussion in a clean community space. To this end, Microsoft will
begin to progressively shift available resources to the forums technology
and discontinue support for newsgroups.

In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
functionality. You can find instructions on how to download and set up the
NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.

Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the
same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups.
The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue
the discussion. We recommend that you start with
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tabletandtouch/threads

Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx

Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to
NNTP(a)microsoft.com
From: diane whatever on 27 May 2010 08:01

>
> When will this Happen?
> Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.

Where is everyone going to go ?? Could it be that this where I come for
answers for about 10 years?
10 years? Has it been that long ? I don't use windows mobile on my phone
anymore, but I do on my
HTC Shift .. I suppose that will be gone too? Why is that ?? Aren't these
NG free ??

Diane

From: Sven on 27 May 2010 18:28
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a direct mapping for Tablet specific
questions, but the general consumer focused questions are expected to be
covered in a forum under

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories

I would suggest starting with the OS group that your tablet runs. I would
suggest making it clear in the subject that your question is Tablet
specific, if indeed that is the case.

"diane whatever" <omigosh(a)nother.com.puter> wrote in message
news:urCMdSZ$KHA.5044(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
>>
>> When will this Happen?
>> Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
>
> Where is everyone going to go ?? Could it be that this where I come for
> answers for about 10 years?
> 10 years? Has it been that long ? I don't use windows mobile on my phone
> anymore, but I do on my
> HTC Shift .. I suppose that will be gone too? Why is that ?? Aren't these
> NG free ??
>
> Diane

From: Beverly Howard on 28 May 2010 19:14
fwiw, the latest forclosure notice included the following suggestion...

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tabletandtouch/threads

Beverly Howard
From: Rainald Taesler on 1 Jun 2010 11:25
Beverly Howard wrote:
> fwiw, the latest forclosure notice included the following
> suggestion...
>
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tabletandtouch/threads

YES. But that's gardly fitting for the needs of the *User* as it is a
*developers* place.

IMO a forum would be needed in the hierarchie of the "Answers" forums.

Rainald


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