ExcelBanter - View Single Post - Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

James Silverton[_3_]

wrote on Sat, 8 May 2010 00:02:32 -0700:

Why?
As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now;
however, the traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been
steadily decreasing for the past several years while customers
and participants are increasingly finding solutions in the
forums on Microsoft properties and third party sites. This
move will unify the customer experience, centralize content,
make it easier for active contributors to retain their
influence, mitigate redundancies and make the content easier
to find by customers and search engines through improved
indexing. Additionally, forums offer a better user and spam
management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by
encouraging a healthy discussion in a clean community space. To this
end, Microsoft will begin to progressively shift
available resources to the forums technology and discontinue
support for newsgroups.

In addition to offering a compelling online browser

Blah! Can the Microslobs *remove* the news group even if they don't
acknowledge it? People could still post to the group and read it on
other servers.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not