From: nntp on

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 here: 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.


Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
Effective July 1, 2010, this newsgroup will be closed.

In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is scheduled for closure in the upcoming months and we would like to invite you to participate at http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/group/WindowsAnswers forum(s). An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized.

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

Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to
NNTP(a)microsoft.com
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
<snip>
> Effective July 1, 2010, this newsgroup will be closed.
>
> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is
> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months...
> ...An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized.

Who proof-reads these things? Geeze...
From: Harry Johnston [MVP] on
On 2010-06-30 11:58 a.m., PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> Effective July 1, 2010, this newsgroup will be closed.
>>
>> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is
>> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months...
>> ...An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized.
>
> Who proof-reads these things? Geeze...

Nobody?

Oh, I suppose that was a rhetorical question. Oops. :-)

Harry.

--
Harry Johnston
http://harryjohnston.wordpress.com
From: MowGreen on
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is
> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months and we would like to invite
> you to participate at
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/group/WindowsAnswers
> forum(s). An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized.
> Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx


How difficult is it to post the *Windows Update* forum link instead of a
generic Windows Answers link ?

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vistawu/threads


Going by this post, apparently it's too difficult for MS to post the
correct URL. That figures as the update forum link just shows Vista in
the URL.
Maybe one day in the not too distant future MS will get it's head out of
it's collective butt ? Nah ... that will never happen with a certain
someone in charge.


MowGreen
================
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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on
MowGreen wrote:
> nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
>> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is
>> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months and we would like to invite
>> you to participate at
>> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/group/WindowsAnswers
>> forum(s). An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are
>> finalized.
>> Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
>> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx
>
>
> How difficult is it to post the *Windows Update* forum link instead of a
> generic Windows Answers link ?
>
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vistawu/threads
>
> Going by this post, apparently it's too difficult for MS to post the
> correct URL. That figures as the update forum link just shows Vista in
> the URL.
> Maybe one day in the not too distant future MS will get it's head out of
> it's collective butt ? Nah ... that will never happen with a certain
> someone in charge.

+1

Then again, everybody knows that no one uses these newsgroups
anymore...though the fact that Win7 doesn't include a default News or Mail
Client just might have something to do with it.
--
~PA�

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