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Re: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

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GOOD BYE microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

<nntp@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:-OaELup$6KHA.2240@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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/newsgroups/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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"Hot-text" <hot-text@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5E0FB764-14B2-4E3E-91BE-E64F103E3AA1@microsoft.com...
> GOOD BYE microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
>
> <nntp@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:-OaELup$6KHA.2240@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning
>> this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in
>> additional languages in the next few days.
>>


Actually it's goodbye msnews.microsoft.com

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