On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:49:38 -0800 (PST), smlunatick
wrote:

On Dec 28, 9:28*am, "Avatar" wrote:
Does the MS decision to leave out Windows 7 newsgroups as well as a
newsreader in the OS a harbinger of the future?
That the UseNet is being phased out - or is dying - after almost a third of
a century?
Does MS know (and control) something we don't?
So is this also a social change dictated by technology's progress? -
That people will now forgo these discussions and instead concentrate on
'faster' means of conversation.
I don't really know where to stand on this but I feel we are witnessing
another - rather uncelebrated - change in online sociology.
Should I look forward to future newsgroups carried on Twitter someday?
Just some year-end musings (meaningless perhaps).
Wishing everybody a Happy New Year.
:-)
Jyanendra
(Courtesy Avatar)
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For Microsoft, YES it will be their end of supporting Usenet. They
are / have moved to a web forum style of post support. See
answers.microsoft.com

I've visited their web forums and I don't like them at all. They're
sort of like going back to horse and wagon transportation after having
become adapted to modern automobiles. I guess this is the end of my
communications privileges concerning MS products. Gordon