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.