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they knew they would and they advertised that fact, and made blog and content owners migrate their stuff if they wanted it kept. many chose not to. those are
by naikrovek 4y ago
they knew they would and they advertised that fact, and made blog and content owners migrate their stuff if they wanted it kept. many chose not to. those are the people you should be angry with.
- denimnerd42 4y agothat's quite a take.. expecting previous article writers to manually migrate their stuff is just as good as killing it.
- naikrovek 4y agothe blog authors knew the content was their own responsibility going in. "quite a take" f u
- manigandham 4y agoOr they could've just migrated it for them, and kept everything running.
- naikrovek 4y agoI'm told that MSDN blog posts were owned by the authors, not Microsoft. it wasn't Microsoft's content to move. movement to docs.microsoft.com meant giving copyright to Microsoft, and not everyone chose to do that.
- int_19h 4y agoMany of the people were no longer at Microsoft when the migration happened, but their blogs were no less useful for that. And some weren't even alive. Michael Kaplan and his amazing blog about internationalization and Unicode comes to mind - thankfully, other people have archived it: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/ http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/