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From: Peter Foldes on 4 May 2010 22:15
Copied from post by nntp(a)microsoft.com in the public.test.here newsgroup

<snip>

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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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uCeG8o96KHA.3924(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> cf. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
>
> Michael wrote:
>> http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2010/05/04/microsoft-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>

From: LD5SZRA on 4 May 2010 22:28

Just change your name to Daphne, Peter Foldes' daughter who works
for him in his escort agency and massage parlour.

hth

Kevin John Panzke wrote:
>
> MICROSOFT SHOULD BE HIT WITH AN ANTI-TRUST LAWSUIT, IN MY OPINION! I
> NOW WILL HAVE NO WAY OF GETTING ONLINE SUPPORT, AS I HAVE ALREADY BEEN
> BANNED FROM THEIR FORUMS! JUST FYI!

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From: Canuck57 on 4 May 2010 22:54
On 04/05/2010 1:52 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2010/05/04/microsoft-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>
>
> I am so gonna miss trashing the morons and the lazy ba$tard$!!!
>

Microsoft wants a medium in which it can censor and control. Sign of
the times. News groups will live on despite the Microsofts. In fact, I
am aware of one sizable effort to assure that they remain open as people
are also sick and tired of ego maniac private boards for the same
reason. Appease the master or get censored.

I am sure this will just move to an alt or comp tree. No big.
Thunderbird works on MS-Windows and without MS-Windows....and has far f
ewer bugs than the Live and other junk, espcially with gmail and other
imap/pop3 bases.

Just one less reason to use MS-Windows.
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From: Greg Russell on 5 May 2010 00:53
In news:4be0b361(a)news.x-privat.org,
Mr Baracuda <baracuda(a)slim.ws> typed:

> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....

M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
in the world that contributed to the vote.


From: LD5SZRA on 5 May 2010 01:32
I guess removing Newsgroup support would surpass that! And also
not supporting IE9 on Windows XP would give rivals an excellent
opportunity to catch up!

hth

Greg Russell wrote:
>

> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.

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