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#1
05-05-10, 03:39 PM
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What do you think about Microsoft closing newsgroups and moving users to
forums? 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...s/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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#2
05-06-10, 02:52 PM
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"daram" <daram> wrote in message
news:ccee > What do you think about Microsoft closing newsgroups and moving users to > forums? Personally I think it's a stupid idea - for a start the forum itself needs a major overhaul because it just doesn't work properly. The newsgroup method is much easier for me to track and tag interesting posts, and it's much more structured. I'm also a developer who has stuck with old technologies - ADO, ASP, etc - and there is nothing in the new forum structure to accommodate these. I'll miss these newsgroups, but maybe it'll mean I'll get more real work done ... :) |
#3
05-07-10, 08:53 AM
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I have just thought of one benefit though - no more EggHeadCafe posts :P
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