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Old May 4th, 2010, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
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Default 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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Old May 5th, 2010, 03:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Fred Boer[_2_]
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored
newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a web-based
reader?!

--
Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast
Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services
Freeware Small Library Application available he
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/


wrote in message
...
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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Old May 5th, 2010, 04:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Arvin Meyer [MVP][_2_]
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

Essentially yes.

There are still UseNet NNTP newsgroups for those who don't want to deal with
forums, and there are many web based forums with varying degrees of ease of
use, both with Microsoft, and with others.

--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.accessmvp.com
http://www.mvps.org/access


"Fred Boer" wrote in message
...
Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored
newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a web-based
reader?!

--
Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast
Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services
Freeware Small Library Application available he
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/


wrote in message
...
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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Old May 5th, 2010, 04:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Fred Boer[_2_]
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

Thanks, Arvin. I suppose that's true, but I *like* these forums, I am
comfortable using them, and I, for one, will certainly miss them. Ah, well,
I guess I should be mature about this and accept those things I cannot
change...

Cheers!

--
Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast
Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services
Freeware Small Library Application available he
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/


"Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Essentially yes.

There are still UseNet NNTP newsgroups for those who don't want to deal
with forums, and there are many web based forums with varying degrees of
ease of use, both with Microsoft, and with others.

--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.accessmvp.com
http://www.mvps.org/access


"Fred Boer" wrote in message
...
Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored
newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a
web-based reader?!

--
Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast
Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services
Freeware Small Library Application available he
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/


wrote in message
...
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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Old May 5th, 2010, 04:30 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Dirk Goldgar
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

"Fred Boer" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Arvin. I suppose that's true, but I *like* these forums, I am
comfortable using them, and I, for one, will certainly miss them. Ah,
well, I guess I should be mature about this and accept those things I
cannot change...



Rage, rage against the dying of the light!

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

(please reply to the newsgroup)

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Old May 6th, 2010, 02:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Daniel Pineault
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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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http://www.cardaconsultants.com/
For Access Tips and Examples: http://www.devhut.net
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" 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...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days.

.

  #7  
Old May 7th, 2010, 02:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

Could this be a hoax?


  #8  
Old May 7th, 2010, 03:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
John Spencer
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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?


  #9  
Old May 7th, 2010, 04:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Dirk Goldgar
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

"Daniel Pineault" wrote in
message ...

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

(please reply to the newsgroup)

 




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