Many of you have seen our previous blog post announcing the Exchange documentation URL changes, and have provided us with your feedback on the matter. Starting off, we want to thank you for all of ...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Is the memory at Microsoft so short? Really?
There were complaints going from 2007 to 2010.
There were also complaints when you went from text-based URLs to GUID-based URLS, and when you went from GUID-based URLs to the current pseudo-random URLs. Just as now when there are complaints going from “pseudo-random” URLs to “pseudo-random URLs with version information”.
Each time, you have promised us that “going forward” our URLs would be inviolate.
Each time you have violated that promise. Stomped it into tiny pieces in the dirt.
I have two books – that still sell over 50 copies a quarter each even against technologies a decade old – one against 2003 and one against 2007 – and all the URLs are invalid in those books. I have hundreds of blog postings where the URLs are invalid. I have hundreds of print magazine and online magazine articles where the URLs are invalid.
This blog post does not represent a solution.
It represents an admission that you don’t care. Get real. Be honest.
It destroys your credibility to write things in this tone. Tell the truth. “We hear you, we aren’t willing to do anything but this.”