{"id":1076,"date":"2010-05-07T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:06:12","slug":"microsoft-to-end-support-for-4000-newsgroups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to end support for 4,000 newsgroups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style newsgroups, starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN sites. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) newsgroups are past their time in terms of being usable and secure. <\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/security-management\/2010\/05\/05\/microsoft-to-end-support-for-4000-newsgroups-40088845\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/security-management\/2010\/05\/05\/microsoft-to-end-support-for-4000-newsgroups-40088845\/\">http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/security-management\/2010\/05\/05\/microsoft-to-end-support-for-4000-newsgroups-40088845\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style newsgroups, starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN sites. Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) newsgroups are past their time in terms of being usable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,197,198],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-newsgroups","tag-nntp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}