Re: Microsoft ending newsgroup support

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 7 May 2010 07:57:32 -0700

Message-ID:

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Hi G,

I think that is a factor, but the biggest factor, in my opinion, is tracking
participation and ensuring that the customer's experience (look and feel,
accessibility, etc.) is the best it can be. We are pretty high power users
and don't care about bells and whistles that much, but I think the typical
MSFT Windows 7 customer likes the fancier looking interface.

I also think the forums protect the content.

Tom

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
news:uPP0v1b7KHA.5936@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote:

I may be wrong. But a decision to kill off the NNTP forums sounds like
nobody at
Microsoft was in touch with reality. Or, as we often phrase it "their
reality-distortion
field was running full force that day".

I think that they can do money on the web forums thanks to advertising;
this is not possible with NNTP newsgroups.
And on the web forum it is possible to delete posts and threads or move
them around (again, not possible with NNTP).

Giovanni

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