Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

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.

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| 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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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

depends on whare the server the post was posted on as to what time zone its
on


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AL'S COMPUTERS
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
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 !

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

Posts are done in UCT, which time zone the server is in shouldn't matter.

John

Andy wrote:
depends on whare the server the post was posted on as to what time zone its
on

It does if one of the servers time stamp is off.
seen i happen before


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AL'S COMPUTERS
"John John - MVP" wrote in message
...
Posts are done in UCT, which time zone the server is in shouldn't matter.

John

Andy wrote:
depends on whare the server the post was posted on as to what time zone
its on