From: nntp on
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: TAJ Simmons on
I'm confused :(

Where will these discussions migrate to?

TAJ


From: Gordon on

"TAJ Simmons" <presentations(a)NOMORESPAMawesomebackgrounds.com> wrote in
message news:OFOvjic7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I'm confused :(
>
> Where will these discussions migrate to?
>
> TAJ
>

Presumably here:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeppt


From: Christine on
Hmmm....I don't like how it is split by topic. The joy of coming here is to
read other people's questions and learn from theirs as well as our own.

Christine

"Gordon" wrote:

>
> "TAJ Simmons" <presentations(a)NOMORESPAMawesomebackgrounds.com> wrote in
> message news:OFOvjic7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > I'm confused :(
> >
> > Where will these discussions migrate to?
> >
> > TAJ
> >
>
> Presumably here:
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeppt
>
>
> .
>
From: Steve Rindsberg on
In article <OFOvjic7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, TAJ Simmons wrote:
> I'm confused :(
>
> Where will these discussions migrate to?
>

Gordon's posted the direct link to the top of the PPT bits.

The more general starting point, in case you're looking for non-PPT
wisdom is

http://answers.microsoft.com



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