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Message: [QUOTE="LD5SZRA, post: 13960346"] Microsoft in its wisdom wants to close down everything that produces no revenue to make its stockholders rich. From June this year, even this newsgroup may not exist if there is any truth in this report: <[URL]http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2010/05/04/microsoft-transitioning-from-newsgroups-to-forums.aspx[/URL]> Or this report: <[URL]http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx[/URL]> On the positive side, the competitors will have the opportunity to produce products that people like you would like to buy. IE8 won't be available to XP users so Mozilla and other browsers will have this wonderful opportunity to recover lost ground especially if they implement latest CSS and HTML 5. Microsoft has closed down many products as this list suggests: 1) Newsgroups shutting down; 2) IE8 not available to XP users (Mozilla and other browsers will continue on XP systems) 3) Outlook Express not being developed 4) Hotmail can't be read in Outlook unless you also install a Connector (new version just released on 20/04/2010) 5) If you criticize Microsoft products on forums, expect your messages to be deleted; 6) MVP status being scaled down (hooray - who is going to miss this? Not me for sure but Pig-Bear will) 7) Future products will only available online not on CD or DVDs 8) Microsoft Works version 10 not available on XP or Vista 9) Microsoft Office Accounting disbanded - the last version was 2009; 10) Frontpage brand disappeared. The list goes on and on! -- THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright LD5SZRA 2010. [/QUOTE]

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