Available free of charge from Microsoft

Oct 24, 2011 14:26 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is making it easier for developers and IT professionals to leverage the forums of MSDN and TechNet.

In accordance to the category they belong to, customers can download either the MSDN Forum Assistant or TechNet Forum Assistant, or both.

The downloads, offered free of charge by the software giant, are actually desktop gadgets designed to streamline the use of MSDN and TechNet forums.

Of course, devs and IT pros need to first feel comfortable with Windows gadgets, because, if the small Windows desktop utilities never appealed to them, it’s hard to believe that either of the two forum assistants will change anything in this regard.

“MSDN Forum Assistant and TechNet Forum Assistant offer a convenient way for the forum users to read the forum recent threads and your own threads, it also makes it easy to create new threads and search in the forum,” Microsoft revealed.

The MSDN Forum Assistant is available for download here.

The TechNet Forum Assistant is available for download here.