The End Is Near

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Actually, Microsoft is quite tolerant of ignorant points of view. You
really should try looking at what is posted there.
 
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.



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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
 
I've always found forums easier to read anyway.
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Not the MS forums. At least here you can killfile the idiots. There, the
signal to noise ratio is insane, tons of crap posts all of people asking
the same question, poorly, because they could not be bothered to see
someone with their same problem already asked and had the question
answered.

Once these newsgroups are gone. I guess I'll just go back to google to
find my answers. Those forums are useless.
 
What about these........

'Newsgroups run on an outdated and discontinued platform that is
no longer supported'.

'Forums are also moderated by Microsoft to ensure content is
accurate and to encourage richer conversations.'
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Which is such a load of crap. Since when is NNTP no longer supported?
 
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!
 
Copied from post by (e-mail address removed) 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>
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I am so gonna miss trashing the morons and the lazy ba$tard$!!!
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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.
 
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DanS said:
What about these........

'Newsgroups run on an outdated and discontinued platform that is
no longer supported'.
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"No longer supported" by M$ of course, which has their collective head up
their asses to think that the NNTP protocol is a particular "platform". The
world-wide distributed NNTP servers include every possible OS platform
imaginable.
'Forums are also moderated by Microsoft to ensure content is
accurate and to encourage richer conversations.'
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| sed -e 's|moderated|arbitrarily censored|' \
-e 's|content is accurate|propoganda is as intended|' \
-e 's|conversations|M$ revenue streams|'
 
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Mr Baracuda said:
so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
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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.
 
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.
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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.
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What do they mean by a "clean space" ?
 
Greg Russell said:
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The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum totat of time,
even
in technological terms.
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Remember the Beta video tapes ?
 
Why less spam and easier to find....... ?
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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" ?
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It's expected to be more moderated than MS newsgroups were.
 
'Forums are also moderated by Microsoft to ensure content is
| sed -e 's|moderated|arbitrarily censored|' \
-e 's|content is accurate|propoganda is as intended|' \
-e 's|conversations|M$ revenue streams|'
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Please cite an example of Microsoft censoring a post in the forums for
propaganda reasons.


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Ben M. Schorr said:
Please cite an example of Microsoft censoring a post in the forums for
propaganda reasons.
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Don't know about propaganda, but I posted THREE responses to the same post
with a website containing a solution to a question on whether it was
possible to install an Upgrade version of Windows 7 without a qualifying
version of Windows being present and ALL THREE were deleted arbitrarily by a
certain "MVP" "Moderator"....
 
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