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Microsoft has discontinue support of newsgroups (newsgroups), writes CNet News with reference to the statement of the company. Users of four thousand news-groups, supported by Microsoft, offered to go to the forums.

Microsoft explained that last year the number of participants newsgroups companies dropped by half. Total company maintains 2,000 public news groups and about 2200 special closed groups. The Company believes that replacing newsgroups can come Forums Microsoft Answers, TechNet and the developer site MSDN. These forums are visited every month, 15 million users, and a monthly increase of the audience is 12 percent.

The closure will be implemented gradually. The first group will be removed with the least number of subscribers. Also in each newsgroup before closing will provide links to the relevant section in the forums. Microsoft support newsgroups since 1996.

According to company representatives, the group did not meet modern safety and convenience users. They are also working on an outdated platform, which also is not updated and not officially supported. Therefore, groups may be targeted by spammers and other malefactors.

Newsgroups are based on messaging protocol NNTP. A distinctive feature of this message format is their simultaneous distribution of all participants. The most widely NNTP-groups distributed in the network Usenet, which appeared in 1980, ten years before the creation of WWW. Currently, the majority of Usenet-groups are used primarily for storage and transfer files, including pirated content.