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Old May 4th, 2010, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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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 7th, 2010, 01:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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Is there anybody who is able to translate this vague gibberish?
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Old May 7th, 2010, 03:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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On Fri, 7 May 2010 05:25:01 -0700, Fred
wrote:

Is there anybody who is able to translate this vague gibberish?


Sometime in the next few months (date not yet announced) Microsoft will shut
down their newsgroup server.

The microsoft.public.access.* Newsgroups will no longer be hosted by Microsoft
or supported by them.

Instead we'll have to go to

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...addbuz/threads

or whatever this webpage becomes over time.
--

John W. Vinson [MVP]
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Old May 7th, 2010, 06:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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Typical Microsoft - if it works, mess it up.
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Old May 8th, 2010, 10:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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Fred wrote:
Typical Microsoft - if it works, mess it up.


I'm hoping this will let me read the forums as if they were still NNTP.
https://connect.microsoft.com/Micros...?wa=wsignin1.0

Mike
 




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