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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
This one closes but it's being replaced with a web-based one. Basically the
same thing except how you access it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Erika Katz" wrote in message g.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. So THIS newsgroup will close? Sorry to hear that. I am still lurking although I don't have many questions or answers. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
You only wish the forums are like the nntp newsgroups. Have you read any of
the answers that the moderators give? -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... This one closes but it's being replaced with a web-based one. Basically the same thing except how you access it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Erika Katz" wrote in message g.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. So THIS newsgroup will close? Sorry to hear that. I am still lurking although I don't have many questions or answers. |
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I haven't yet seen any online forum that isn't a klunky, slow, difficult
mess -- only to be confronted when absolutely necessary. Of course, I'm comparing to the speed & ease of text, which they seem to want to leave behind. All those company people who think forums are so speedy & great must have unbelievably fast connections with direct lines to *their* forum, not like us poor slobs out here in the real-user-world who have to wait through endless page refreshes for every little change in what's on the screen. (when I had to do all my email on the web for a week it was.... a bleeping *awful* experience) I'm not even counting whatever the "help" given actually is, just the interface/access. (I wonder if someone will set up a usenet group for some of what MS is dumping....as they did for W7....) Looking on the bright side, I'll have more time to spend with my iPad if I'm not browsing MS groups. MS seems to be like my local supermarket -- constantly "improving" but actually telling me to get lost & take my business elsewhere! bj "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... You only wish the forums are like the nntp newsgroups. Have you read any of the answers that the moderators give? -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... This one closes but it's being replaced with a web-based one. Basically the same thing except how you access it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Erika Katz" wrote in message g.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. So THIS newsgroup will close? Sorry to hear that. I am still lurking although I don't have many questions or answers. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
The two problems I have with the "Answers" web is lack of specificity in the
subject, there are near as many separate categories, so there seem to be a broad mix of questions and subjects in every forum. The other problem being the "canned" (and sometimes bizarre) answers from the mods. They also seem to be a little quick on the "Solved" trigger ) -- James Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... You only wish the forums are like the nntp newsgroups. Have you read any of the answers that the moderators give? -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... This one closes but it's being replaced with a web-based one. Basically the same thing except how you access it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Erika Katz" wrote in message g.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. So THIS newsgroup will close? Sorry to hear that. I am still lurking although I don't have many questions or answers. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
That second clause should have read "there **aren't nearly** as many
separate categories..." -- James Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida "Jaime" wrote in message ... The two problems I have with the "Answers" web is lack of specificity in the subject, there are near as many separate categories, so there seem to be a broad mix of questions and subjects in every forum. The other problem being the "canned" (and sometimes bizarre) answers from the mods. They also seem to be a little quick on the "Solved" trigger ) -- James Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... You only wish the forums are like the nntp newsgroups. Have you read any of the answers that the moderators give? -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... This one closes but it's being replaced with a web-based one. Basically the same thing except how you access it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Erika Katz" wrote in message g.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. So THIS newsgroup will close? Sorry to hear that. I am still lurking although I don't have many questions or answers. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Jaime wrote:
That second clause should have read "there **aren't nearly** as many separate categories..." Well ... if it's a forum ... can't you start a new topic and ask a question about anything? |
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