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From: Daniel Pineault on 6 May 2010 09:04
Nothing like reduing support for your software, especially those who develop
upon them thus actually promoting them. In an age where most business are
actually trying to expand support by using social media, developing online
tools, and so much more, MS is in fact shutting down stable tools?! Some
brilliant person/people at the top have oviously deemed groups as a cost
rather than a ROI. A big mistake! Short sighted! Typical bean counting
approach to business!

I am still a little confused! Since this group also runs through a web
interface, will the web interface remain or is the entire group being
shelved? Gotta love the clarity of their message. Lots of words to actually
say very little. (Make me think the same about my current post, so I think
I'll stop here).

Disappointing! Disappointed!!!
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Daniel Pineault
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"nntp(a)microsoft.com" wrote:

> 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/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days.
>
> .
>
From: Fred on 7 May 2010 09:20
Could this be a hoax?


From: John Spencer on 7 May 2010 10:05
No, it is not a hoax.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2010
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Fred wrote:
> Could this be a hoax?
>
>
From: Dirk Goldgar on 7 May 2010 11:47
"Daniel Pineault" <DanielPineault(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:4BC78EC6-A8AC-47B5-845A-2D4F34DF0A9D(a)microsoft.com...
>
> I am still a little confused! Since this group also runs through a web
> interface, will the web interface remain or is the entire group being
> shelved?

I'm not completely sure, but I believe they will be scrapping the whole
current Webnews/NNTPNews structure to one or more online forums, possibly in
a combination of the Microsoft Answers forums and the developer forums on
MSDN. What's on Answers for Access right now is not nearly deep or
structured enough to be very useful, so I think they'll have to revise that
organization. I would much prefer to have all content related to Access
under one umbrella, not split into Answers (end-user content) and MSDN
(developer content), since Access is both an end-user app and a developer
app, with no clear dividing line.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html

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