Windows Live Help Community is now gone too

re: Windows Live Help Community is now gone too

Tegument — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:19 GMT

@Khristopher , im curious about wl favs too...in my opinion wl favorites is still a good service, now wether it needs its own site is another question, i think it would be a better fit as part of live mesh..hopefully we'll see something like that done soon.

re: Windows Live Help Community is now gone too

Firedog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:01:15 GMT

Looks like the WL Help Community is still soldiering on as a news server; the ridiculously-named

news://microsoft.public.windows.live.customdomains.techsupport.com

was still operating a minute ago, with a solitary MVP (Steve Boots) doing a sterling job rescuing illiterate damsels in Hotmail or Messenger distress. With more than 12 posts a day, it is used much more than many other MS newsgroups, even if only a tiny minority of those posts have anything to do with Custom Domains - now the even more ridiculously-named Windows Live Admin Center.

re: Windows Live Help Community is now gone too

Khristopher — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:42:09 GMT

This is what I feel they need to be doing, and should have done long ago. Better late than never though, right?

But it seems the things they're getting rid of is the services that have been quiet for a long time, which makes me wonder about Live Favorites...

re: Windows Live Help Community is now gone too

VasiS — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:48:12 GMT

"Seems like Microsoft is finally getting their hands on to clean up the mess they've created with Windows Live and Live Search."

and they seem to be doing very fast. After they decided to move on (from Yahoo), there are a lot of things coming out (cashback, farecast etc etc) and changing (shutting down unused services). MS seems to have planned this a long time ago and now they are just executing it, at a very rapid pace, that is.

Good to see MS pushing the pedal on live services and strategy. Hope to see them act more aggressive and bring out more features.