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Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community



 
 
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Old May 8th 10, 06:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

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 he 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.technet.microsoft.com/...asetup/threads

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

Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to


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Old May 9th 10, 01:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Chuck[_2_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Translation:
Microsoft, like many other ISPs, decided to drop newsgroup support. This
translates into usenet newsgroups or forum support left. Strangely, MS
recently also eliminated groups for MSN subscribers. What does this mean?
How about COST REDUCTION! Guess someone at Microsoft is getting greedy
again! The success of win7 must not have been enough.


On 5/8/2010 2:46 PM, wrote:
What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?

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Old May 9th 10, 01:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Chuck[_2_]
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community


Translation:
Microsoft, like many other ISPs, decided to drop newsgroup support. This
translates into usenet newsgroups or forum support left. Strangely, MS
recently also eliminated groups for MSN subscribers. What does this mean?
How about COST REDUCTION! Guess someone at Microsoft is getting greedy
again! The success of win7 must not have been enough.


On 5/8/2010 2:46 PM, wrote:
What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?

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Old May 9th 10, 02:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Robert Neville
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

wrote:

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.


Typical Microsoft - no clue how the real world works. No matter how much
Microsoft may want to, they can't close a Usenet newsgroup. The best they can do
is stop carrying the group on their servers and ask their employees not to post.
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Old May 9th 10, 02:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Robert Neville
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

wrote:

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.


Typical Microsoft - no clue how the real world works. No matter how much
Microsoft may want to, they can't close a Usenet newsgroup. The best they can do
is stop carrying the group on their servers and ask their employees not to post.
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Old May 10th 10, 01:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Rick Rogers
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Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Hi,

Has nothing to do with cost reduction. Microsoft stopped including support
for nntp in their server product a few generations back. They are closing
their nntp server farm as the server products it relies on are becoming
outdated.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
Translation:
Microsoft, like many other ISPs, decided to drop newsgroup support. This
translates into usenet newsgroups or forum support left. Strangely, MS
recently also eliminated groups for MSN subscribers. What does this mean?
How about COST REDUCTION! Guess someone at Microsoft is getting greedy
again! The success of win7 must not have been enough.


On 5/8/2010 2:46 PM, wrote:
What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin
discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?


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Old May 10th 10, 01:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Rick Rogers
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Posts: 8,428
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Hi,

Has nothing to do with cost reduction. Microsoft stopped including support
for nntp in their server product a few generations back. They are closing
their nntp server farm as the server products it relies on are becoming
outdated.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
Translation:
Microsoft, like many other ISPs, decided to drop newsgroup support. This
translates into usenet newsgroups or forum support left. Strangely, MS
recently also eliminated groups for MSN subscribers. What does this mean?
How about COST REDUCTION! Guess someone at Microsoft is getting greedy
again! The success of win7 must not have been enough.


On 5/8/2010 2:46 PM, wrote:
What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin
discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?


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Old May 10th 10, 01:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Rick Rogers
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Posts: 8,428
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

True. As long as one server anywhere continues to host any of the usenet
groups originally established on Microsoft's servers, the group will
continue.

Microsoft is shutting down their nntp server farm, the employees that choose
to participate have long since migrated to the Microsoft Answers forums.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Robert Neville" wrote in message
...
wrote:

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.


Typical Microsoft - no clue how the real world works. No matter how much
Microsoft may want to, they can't close a Usenet newsgroup. The best they
can do
is stop carrying the group on their servers and ask their employees not to
post.


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Old May 10th 10, 01:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Rick Rogers
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8,428
Default Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

True. As long as one server anywhere continues to host any of the usenet
groups originally established on Microsoft's servers, the group will
continue.

Microsoft is shutting down their nntp server farm, the employees that choose
to participate have long since migrated to the Microsoft Answers forums.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Robert Neville" wrote in message
...
wrote:

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.


Typical Microsoft - no clue how the real world works. No matter how much
Microsoft may want to, they can't close a Usenet newsgroup. The best they
can do
is stop carrying the group on their servers and ask their employees not to
post.


 




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