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From: Docster on 13 Jul 2010 20:46
Can anyone tell me what happened to the selection of news groups e.g.,
Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Word, Power Point, Outlook, etc. for
WinXP?
I just came back to the News.Microsoft.Com and most of what I am use to
seeing is gone.


From: Bruce Hagen on 13 Jul 2010 21:01

"Docster" <jimholladay(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Omi9$3uILHA.1996(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
> Can anyone tell me what happened to the selection of news groups e.g.,
> Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Word, Power Point, Outlook, etc. for
> WinXP?
> I just came back to the News.Microsoft.Com and most of what I am use to
> seeing is gone.


They are being removed from the MS servers.

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

Newsgroups removed as of June 1, 2010
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2010/06/05/closin-the-nntp.aspx

You can still access the groups on some non-MS servers such as Eternal
September, but how long the quality of questions and replies lasts is
unknown.

Eternal September
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/eternal-september.html

The replacement forums.

Microsoft Answers - First Time Users
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

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