Apparently the board took one look at all the garbage Ima Ufo was
posting here, rang Ballmer personaly to apologise and then tucked the
discussions section of the forums out of site.

Disagree - give me another reason that doesn't involve Google just
being plain careless at support and releases.   Oh but of course silly
me.  We are still in Beta arn't we.   That special Google and-time-
stood-still beta that never ends.   Bless them!