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The End Is Near

M

Mr Baracuda

Flightless Bird
so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
lets intensify our hatred vile spilling crap throwing insulting comments
about vista now that we have time

"Michael" <mdsjhu@gropumail.com> wrote in message
news:2D9DD218-A1B5-4472-A081-382463FA7019@microsoft.com...
> Q: How is Microsoft closing newsgroups in phases?
>
> A: Microsoft is posting notices in newsgroups that will be closed well in
> advance of closure dates. We will begin with newsgroups with the least
> active number of users and posts, and by mid-2010, will move to more
> active newsgroups that have a higher volume of posts and users.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uCeG8o96KHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> cf. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
>>
>> Michael wrote:
>>> http://community.winsupersite.com/b...-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>>
 
M

Mr Baracuda

Flightless Bird
translation: we do not support freedom of speech, will will construct a
gestapo platform which we can control the posts
according to our limited and twisted beliefs

"Michael" <mdsjhu@gropumail.com> wrote in message
news:D0B7DBFF-1878-423C-BC7C-444D6786DB6F@microsoft.com...
>
> http://community.winsupersite.com/b...-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>
> I am so gonna miss trashing the morons and the lazy ba$tard$!!!
>
> --
>
>
> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>
>
 
P

Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
Copied from post by nntp@microsoft.com in the public.test.here newsgroup

<snip>

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.

<end snip>
--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uCeG8o96KHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> cf. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
>
> Michael wrote:
>> http://community.winsupersite.com/b...-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>
 
L

LD5SZRA

Flightless Bird
Just change your name to Daphne, Peter Foldes' daughter who works
for him in his escort agency and massage parlour.

hth

Kevin John Panzke wrote:
>
> MICROSOFT SHOULD BE HIT WITH AN ANTI-TRUST LAWSUIT, IN MY OPINION! I
> NOW WILL HAVE NO WAY OF GETTING ONLINE SUPPORT, AS I HAVE ALREADY BEEN
> BANNED FROM THEIR FORUMS! JUST FYI!

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C

Canuck57

Flightless Bird
On 04/05/2010 1:52 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> http://community.winsupersite.com/b...-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx
>
>
> I am so gonna miss trashing the morons and the lazy ba$tard$!!!
>

Microsoft wants a medium in which it can censor and control. Sign of
the times. News groups will live on despite the Microsofts. In fact, I
am aware of one sizable effort to assure that they remain open as people
are also sick and tired of ego maniac private boards for the same
reason. Appease the master or get censored.

I am sure this will just move to an alt or comp tree. No big.
Thunderbird works on MS-Windows and without MS-Windows....and has far f
ewer bugs than the Live and other junk, espcially with gmail and other
imap/pop3 bases.

Just one less reason to use MS-Windows.
--
Are we being heard or are we a herd?
 
G

Greg Russell

Flightless Bird
In news:4be0b361@news.x-privat.org,
Mr Baracuda <baracuda@slim.ws> typed:

> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....

M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
in the world that contributed to the vote.
 
L

LD5SZRA

Flightless Bird
I guess removing Newsgroup support would surpass that! And also
not supporting IE9 on Windows XP would give rivals an excellent
opportunity to catch up!

hth

Greg Russell wrote:
>

> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.

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KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA
OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF
BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS
ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY.

Copyright LD5SZRA 2010.
 
B

Bob I

Flightless Bird
Greg Russell wrote:

> In news:4be0b361@news.x-privat.org,
> Mr Baracuda <baracuda@slim.ws> typed:
>
>
>>so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>
>
> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.
>

http://www.zdnet.com/news/the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/177729
 
F

Frank Drew Leyda

Flightless Bird
I don't have an opinion about Newsgroups versa Forums but

> 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.
*******************************************************
Why less spam and easier to find....... ?

> Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform
> that will improve customer > satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a
> clean space.
*********************************************************
What do they mean by a "clean space" ?
 
G

Greg Russell

Flightless Bird
In news:-OAOrr0E7KHA.3196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> typed:

>>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>>
>> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters
>> of the 21st Century" ...
>
> http://.../the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/...

The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum totat of time, even
in technological terms.
 
F

Frank Drew Leyda

Flightless Bird
"Greg Russell" <grussell@example.con> wrote in message
news:84dkhsFf1uU1@mid.individual.net...
> In news:-OAOrr0E7KHA.3196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
> Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> typed:
>
>>>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>>>
>>> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters
>>> of the 21st Century" ...
>>
>> http://.../the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/...
>
> The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum totat of time,
> even
> in technological terms.
****************************************************
Remember the Beta video tapes ?
 
M

Mr Baracuda

Flightless Bird
it's a miracle that they were actually able to take that buggy horrible code
and streamline it enough to make windows7 actually usable!

Of course it needed more effort and man hours that building the great
pyramid

but they were under the whip of Balmer...

"Code slaves, Code!!!!! <sound of whip lashing>... or microsoft is going
down with all you in it!"





"Greg Russell" <grussell@example.con> wrote in message
news:84cbueFt0hU1@mid.individual.net...
> In news:4be0b361@news.x-privat.org,
> Mr Baracuda <baracuda@slim.ws> typed:
>
>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>
> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.
>
>
 
R

Robert Aldwinckle

Flightless Bird
"Frank Drew Leyda" <mymail@nothere.com> wrote in message
news:uRFuRVG7KHA.5412@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> Why less spam and easier to find....... ?

Well for one thing Google indexes it with its web search, so now you won't
need to know about Google Groups to search archived threads.


> What do they mean by a "clean space" ?

It's expected to be more moderated than MS newsgroups were.
 
M

Mr Baracuda

Flightless Bird
it means that if I think vista is shit (which I do) and I post my opinion,
they will erase it


"Frank Drew Leyda" <mymail@nothere.com> wrote in message
news:uRFuRVG7KHA.5412@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I don't have an opinion about Newsgroups versa Forums but
>
>> 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.
> *******************************************************
> Why less spam and easier to find....... ?
>
>> Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management
>> platform that will improve customer > satisfaction by facilitating
>> discussions in a clean space.
> *********************************************************
> What do they mean by a "clean space" ?
>
>
>
>
 
D

DanS

Flightless Bird
"Frank Drew Leyda" <mymail@nothere.com> wrote in
news:uezAkjH7KHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

>
> "Greg Russell" <grussell@example.con> wrote in message
> news:84dkhsFf1uU1@mid.individual.net...
>> In news:-OAOrr0E7KHA.3196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
>> Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> typed:
>>
>>>>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>>>>
>>>> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological
>>>> Disasters of the 21st Century" ...
>>>
>>> http://.../the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/...
>>
>> The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum
>> totat of time, even
>> in technological terms.
> ****************************************************
> Remember the Beta video tapes ?

You mean the Betamax video tape format which was superior to VHS
in every way except total recording time ?

That was far from a technological disaster.
 
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