GOOD BYE microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general <nntp@microsoft.com> wrote in message newsaELup$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. >
"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 > newsaELup$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 -- Pentab