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How Microsoft made its Answers forum less useful

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Mary Branscombe
May 20, 20261 min read

or subscribers, but an AskWoody subscription is very reasonable! As well as digging in to how the new AI auto-tagging works and how good the AI powered suggested answers are - and noting that if you accept the answer, your question doesn't actually get posted - I have a potted history of how Microsoft online support went from CompuServe to Usenet to forums to MSDN and TechNet to Answers to Q&A.

  • Microsoft
  • support
  • AI
  • history of technology

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