Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
 

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...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days.

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
 

All right, already! Geeze...

wrote [Wed, 05 May 2010 04:27:29 -0700 (UTC)]:
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...
blithersnippage
...In the meantime, please refer to the
official Microsoft Newsgroup website
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning
this issue...

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
 

All right, already! Geeze...

wrote [Wed, 05 May 2010 04:27:29 -0700 (UTC)]:
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...
blithersnippage
...In the meantime, please refer to the
official Microsoft Newsgroup website
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning
this issue...

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
 

Ironic, isn't it, that MS doesn't know how to post?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
: All right, already! Geeze...
:
: wrote [Wed, 05 May 2010 04:27:29 -0700 (UTC)]:
: 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...
: blithersnippage
: ...In the meantime, please refer to the
: official Microsoft Newsgroup website
: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning
: this issue...

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
 

Ironic, isn't it, that MS doesn't know how to post?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
: All right, already! Geeze...
:
: wrote [Wed, 05 May 2010 04:27:29 -0700 (UTC)]:
: 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...
: blithersnippage
: ...In the meantime, please refer to the
: official Microsoft Newsgroup website
: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning
: this issue...