Re: Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community
Stewart Berman
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nn...@microsoft.com wrote:
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>Microsoft Office Evolves Community as Part of Office 2010 Launch:
>As you know, this is a big year for Microsoft as we are launching the latest
>version of Office. Office 2010 is all about making it easy for you to get
>and use Office on your terms. Office 2010 lets you work from the office,
>from home, or at school across the PC, the Phone, and the Browser. You
>can purchase Office 2010 from retail, from our OEM manufactures when you
>purchase a new PC, or get it direct from Microsoft, faster than ever via a
>new software delivery mechanism called Click-To-Run.
>
>And, we're working hard to provide you the customer support you want, when
>you want it. We are offering 1-year of technical support included in our
>Office Professional 2010 SKU. We are expanding and improving our community
>to provide free, 24/7 support. The details of this evolution are outlined
>below, but suffice it to say, we're really excited about this as it aligns
>with our Office 2010 vision of Office on your terms
>
>What is Happening?
>This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
>newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.
>
>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 experience, for those
>users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
>newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
>which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
>forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
>functionality. You can find instructions on how to download and set up the
>NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/
>
>
>When will this Happen?
>Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
>
>Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
>Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the
>same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups.
>The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue
>the discussion. We recommend that you start with: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/accessdev/threads
>
>Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
>http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx
>
>Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
>Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to
>NN...@microsoft.com
Douglas J. Steele
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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/DJSteele
Co-author: Access 2010 Solutions, published by Wiley
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"Stewart Berman" <sabe...@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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David W. Fenton
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> Try using http://groups.google.com/
Someone somewhere in this discussion said that the archives of
DejaNews were lost, but they were not -- Google Groups took them
over and has the most complete Usenet archive of all time. In fact,
Google sought out archives of newsgroups that were lacking in Deja's
archive and loaded them into their database when they set things up.
Too bad they've now screwed up the search interface so that you
can't trust the results!
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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/