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Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to |
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Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
Turning it into a sales pitch.
wrote in message ... : : Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: : As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest : version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get : and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, : from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You : can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you : purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a : new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. : : And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when : you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our : Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community : to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined : below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns : with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms : : 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ : : : When will this Happen? : Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. : : Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? : Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the : same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. : The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue : the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword : : Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to : http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx : : Who Should I Contact with any Questions? : Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to : |
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Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the
one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to |
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Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
They also mis-spoke.
They meant "use Office on *our* terms the way *we* think it should be done." But they're right about the "vision" part & I'm sure they are excited about it. People having "visions" usually are. :-( bj "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... Turning it into a sales pitch. wrote in message ... : The details of this evolution are outlined : below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it : aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms : |
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Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. |
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I suspect that "better than nothing" is the best we're going to get, though
I'm hoping that the "new platform infrastructure" (.NET 4.0, I gather) will perhaps improve response time. I can definitely tell a difference between these NGs with native OE and the forums using the bridge; it's more noticeable at night (when there seems to be more traffic) than early in the morning. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. |
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I don't know what newsreader you are using the access the forums, but with
Windows Live Mail, if you set the synchronization mode that you want (New messages only) for the forums that you want to access and then use Sync everything, the performance as you move from post to post is, as far as I can tell, identical to that when moving from post to post in the NNTP newsgroups. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. |
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I concur with Doug. I'm using WLM as my client and the bridge cannot be
faulted for speed. First thing in the morning when they may be 80 or 100 overnight posts to sync, it takes barely two or three seconds to download them all. Perhaps the bridge was 'tuned and tested' with WLM. Terry Farrell "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I suspect that "better than nothing" is the best we're going to get, though I'm hoping that the "new platform infrastructure" (.NET 4.0, I gather) will perhaps improve response time. I can definitely tell a difference between these NGs with native OE and the forums using the bridge; it's more noticeable at night (when there seems to be more traffic) than early in the morning. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. |
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... I don't know what newsreader you are using the access the forums, but with Windows Live Mail, if you set the synchronization mode that you want (New messages only) for the forums that you want to access and then use Sync everything, the performance as you move from post to post is, as far as I can tell, identical to that when moving from post to post in the NNTP newsgroups. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. I am using WLM and have set the sync to new only. Been doing that on the newsgroups as well as the bridge forums. The forums are extremely slow to close one and open the next when clicking on them but the news.microsoft.com and news.eternal-september.org newsgroup servers are almost instantaneous. I always Sync everything prior to starting to read newsgroups. While the syncing is almost as fast with forums and newsgoup servers it is closing one forum and opening another that is extremely slow. I do have show as read when exiting checked but that is for all three servers, newsgroup and bridge. For instance, I just got back after a week on vacation. Nothing was synced for the week. I did a sync all and once all was done I was able to go through the 3 eternal-september newsgroups and the 22 microsoft newsgroups with absolute no lag between groups. With only 38 or 42 new responses on a few of the forums (granted some had much more) it would take as long as 2 minutes to switch between the individual forums. This is a consistent item on two different computers set with the bridge using two version of WLM (one build 12.xxx on Vista Home Premium and the other on Vista Ultimate with build 14.xxx and I hate build 14's interface.) As for Suzanne's post, I have Answers.en-US.xxxxx in my bridge setup which I downloaded about 2 weeks ago. |
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It is no more than a blink of the eyelid here to change from one forum to
another (even with between ones that have hundreds of unread posts). Apparently, you will need a new bridge after to-morrow to be able to access the Answers forums. Whether the new bridge can be used simultaneously with the existing one (for access to the MSDN/Technet Forums) is not yet known. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... I don't know what newsreader you are using the access the forums, but with Windows Live Mail, if you set the synchronization mode that you want (New messages only) for the forums that you want to access and then use Sync everything, the performance as you move from post to post is, as far as I can tell, identical to that when moving from post to post in the NNTP newsgroups. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But don't download the bridge yet unless there's assurance that this is the one that will work with the Answers forums. The current bridge is going to work only for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression forums. The Answers forums are going to be moved to a different "platform infrastructure" and will require a different bridge, which is supposed to become available tomorrow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch: As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office, from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run. And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms 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 he http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to I am currently using the bridge that is available and believe me, while it is better than nothing it does not work well even on a fast machine. This is really a slow system to pull the damn forums in and use them. At least it does put all the "threads" in one location instead of the nasty web forums where you can't see all the subjects easily along with responses. I am using WLM and have set the sync to new only. Been doing that on the newsgroups as well as the bridge forums. The forums are extremely slow to close one and open the next when clicking on them but the news.microsoft.com and news.eternal-september.org newsgroup servers are almost instantaneous. I always Sync everything prior to starting to read newsgroups. While the syncing is almost as fast with forums and newsgoup servers it is closing one forum and opening another that is extremely slow. I do have show as read when exiting checked but that is for all three servers, newsgroup and bridge. For instance, I just got back after a week on vacation. Nothing was synced for the week. I did a sync all and once all was done I was able to go through the 3 eternal-september newsgroups and the 22 microsoft newsgroups with absolute no lag between groups. With only 38 or 42 new responses on a few of the forums (granted some had much more) it would take as long as 2 minutes to switch between the individual forums. This is a consistent item on two different computers set with the bridge using two version of WLM (one build 12.xxx on Vista Home Premium and the other on Vista Ultimate with build 14.xxx and I hate build 14's interface.) As for Suzanne's post, I have Answers.en-US.xxxxx in my bridge setup which I downloaded about 2 weeks ago. |
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