From:

| 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.


Microsoft is so screwed up, their posting time is 7 hours off !

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