Where are all the Windows-7 newsgroups?
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From: charles on 5 Jul 2010 08:50 I can't find any - are there some?
From: Keith Combs on 6 Jul 2010 09:52 Steve, There have been Windows 7 specific forums for months and months. See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/w7itpro Keith Combs Senior Program Manager - TechNet (425) 705-9217 office http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs "Steve Foster" wrote in message news:xn0gwb9uqo19jkf00z(a)news.eternal-september.org... I don't think Microsoft ever created any Windows 7 specific groups. And they are now in the process of abandoning NNTP and closing down their operation of the microsoft.* hierarchy. I expect msnews.microsoft.com to be gone by the end of the year (there were in excess of 2000 groups listed prior to 1st June - that number is now just over 200). However, NNTP being a peered protocol, many of the existing groups will continue on other public NNTP servers. But it's highly unlikely that new groups within the microsoft.* hierarchy will ever get created. -- Steve Foster For SSL Certificates, Domains, etc, visit.: https://netshop.virtual-isp.net
From: Steve Foster on 6 Jul 2010 11:02 Keith Combs wrote: >There have been Windows 7 specific forums for months and months. See >http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/w7itpro We know where the forums are - a previous respondent already that pointed out. But that doesn't actually answer the OP's question, which was "Where are the W7 *newsgroups*?" (my emphasis). -- Steve Foster ------------ Please reply only to the newsgroups. For SSL Certificates, Domains, etc, visit.: https://netshop.virtual-isp.net
From: John John - MVP on 6 Jul 2010 11:42 You can paint them whichever color you want but forums are not newsgroups! John Keith Combs wrote: > Steve, > > There have been Windows 7 specific forums for months and months. See > http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/w7itpro > > Keith Combs > Senior Program Manager - TechNet > (425) 705-9217 office > http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs > > "Steve Foster" wrote in message > news:xn0gwb9uqo19jkf00z(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > I don't think Microsoft ever created any Windows 7 specific groups. > > And they are now in the process of abandoning NNTP and closing down > their operation of the microsoft.* hierarchy. I expect > msnews.microsoft.com to be gone by the end of the year (there were in > excess of 2000 groups listed prior to 1st June - that number is now > just over 200). > > However, NNTP being a peered protocol, many of the existing groups will > continue on other public NNTP servers. But it's highly unlikely that > new groups within the microsoft.* hierarchy will ever get created. >
From: XS11E on 6 Jul 2010 11:47
"Keith Combs" <keith_combs(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Steve, > > There have been Windows 7 specific forums for months and months. Which are all totally useless. Forums, bah, humbug! -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |