Microsoft Kills Off Newsgroups

Microsoft is killing off its newsgroups and encouraging users to move to forums instead. The software giant has over 2,000 public groups covering its various products, as well as 2,200 private groups for the likes of Microsoft resellers. But from June 2010 these will be moved to revamped forums on TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Answers. Microsoft said: Forums offer a better spam management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by encouraging a healthy discussion space