"John Wolf" wrote in message
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Does MS think that web based forms are superior to Newsgroups?
They do have a web based gateway to Newsgroups.

Yes, AFAIK, they consider to abandon these nntp newsgroups sometime and move
to the forums.

The win7 users & IT forums are he
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/

Developer forums for win7 are he
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...ategory/windev

Regards,
--pa