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From: Jeremy Linton on 14 May 2010 18:40 <joke> MS's announcement translated... > 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. Beginning this summer, we are shutting down perfectly working standardized technology. This is to encourage the older more knowledgeable crowd using those technologies to move into the web forums where they may help users who are either to lazy or ignorant to install news readers. Plus, in an effort to control all the content and postings in our newsgroups we will create a proprietary interface that makes it hard to replicate the information on 3rd party servers. > > 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 assigned some programmers to consolidate all of our venues, and create nntp/web forums bridging. Instead they wrote a new forum interface. Since we paid them all this money, we have to use this new technology or we won't look good to our bosses. To make it easier on us, and offload some of the pain to the community we will be disabling some of your connections and requiring you to go to some effort to setup some new accounts. </joke> |