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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored
newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a web-based reader?! -- Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services Freeware Small Library Application available he http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ wrote in message ... 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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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Essentially yes.
There are still UseNet NNTP newsgroups for those who don't want to deal with forums, and there are many web based forums with varying degrees of ease of use, both with Microsoft, and with others. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.accessmvp.com http://www.mvps.org/access "Fred Boer" wrote in message ... Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a web-based reader?! -- Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services Freeware Small Library Application available he http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ wrote in message ... 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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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Thanks, Arvin. I suppose that's true, but I *like* these forums, I am
comfortable using them, and I, for one, will certainly miss them. Ah, well, I guess I should be mature about this and accept those things I cannot change... Cheers! -- Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services Freeware Small Library Application available he http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote in message ... Essentially yes. There are still UseNet NNTP newsgroups for those who don't want to deal with forums, and there are many web based forums with varying degrees of ease of use, both with Microsoft, and with others. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.accessmvp.com http://www.mvps.org/access "Fred Boer" wrote in message ... Does this mean what I think it means?! Death of Microsoft sponsored newsgroups I can read with a proper news reader? Forced to use a web-based reader?! -- Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services Freeware Small Library Application available he http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ wrote in message ... 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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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
"Fred Boer" wrote in message
... Thanks, Arvin. I suppose that's true, but I *like* these forums, I am comfortable using them, and I, for one, will certainly miss them. Ah, well, I guess I should be mature about this and accept those things I cannot change... Rage, rage against the dying of the light! -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Nothing like reduing support for your software, especially those who develop
upon them thus actually promoting them. In an age where most business are actually trying to expand support by using social media, developing online tools, and so much more, MS is in fact shutting down stable tools?! Some brilliant person/people at the top have oviously deemed groups as a cost rather than a ROI. A big mistake! Short sighted! Typical bean counting approach to business! I am still a little confused! Since this group also runs through a web interface, will the web interface remain or is the entire group being shelved? Gotta love the clarity of their message. Lots of words to actually say very little. (Make me think the same about my current post, so I think I'll stop here). Disappointing! Disappointed!!! -- Daniel Pineault http://www.cardaconsultants.com/ For Access Tips and Examples: http://www.devhut.net Please rate this post using the vote buttons if it was helpful. " wrote: 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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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Could this be a hoax?
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
No, it is not a hoax.
John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2010 The Hilltop Institute University of Maryland Baltimore County Fred wrote: Could this be a hoax? |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
"Daniel Pineault" wrote in
message ... I am still a little confused! Since this group also runs through a web interface, will the web interface remain or is the entire group being shelved? I'm not completely sure, but I believe they will be scrapping the whole current Webnews/NNTPNews structure to one or more online forums, possibly in a combination of the Microsoft Answers forums and the developer forums on MSDN. What's on Answers for Access right now is not nearly deep or structured enough to be very useful, so I think they'll have to revise that organization. I would much prefer to have all content related to Access under one umbrella, not split into Answers (end-user content) and MSDN (developer content), since Access is both an end-user app and a developer app, with no clear dividing line. -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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