Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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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.
Karl E. Peterson
> 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.
Bite me!
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"Karl E. Peterson" <ka...@exmvps.org> wrote in message news:e4itS2I7...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
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Larry Serflaten
<nn...@microsoft.com> wrote
What they say: What they mean:
Starting in early summer 2010, When we get good and ready,
Microsoft will begin progressively closing we will begin our draconian attempt to close
down the Microsoft public newsgroups all the NNTP service we can
to enrich conversations in to try to force everyone over to our web apps
the rapidly-growing forum platform. that we repeatedly update with bug fixes.
This decision is in response Our shareholders demand that we raise revenue
to worldwide market trends and bring out a Google-like ad campaign
and evolving customer needs. which we can't do over NNTP.
Of course, its all a matter of perspective....
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LFS
C. Kevin Provance
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Spot on.