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Microsoft public windows 7 newsgroup
Funny that. I'm about to receive a new computer with Windows 7, so I've
been spending a lot of time in Microsoft's Windows 7 forums. Plenty of solid information there, and I find no slowness at all vis-a-vis the newsgroups. What's missing are the free-for-all saloon fights that occasionally break out in the newsgroups, but I can live with that. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Ken Blake, MVP wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:23:53 -0500, Leonard Grey wrote: This is all my opinion, so I hope everyone likes salt. The experience of a moderated, owned web forum can be very different from the experience of an essentially unmoderated public newsgroup. True, but newsgroups can be moderated too. And I would have greatly preferred that, even if the moderation were imperfect. Also note that some newsgroups (for example, the Corel WordPerfect newsgroups) are public, but not echoed to every news server in the world; doing that non-echoing could have made the moderation near perfect, as it is on the Corel WordPerfect newsgroups. It seems that Microsoft has decided that peer-to-peer communication should constitute a significant portion of its official support for Windows 7. Therefore, they instituted moderated, controlled web forums. The advantage is: You're more likely to find authoritative help. The disadvantage is: Big Brother is watching. From my perspective, there's another *much* bigger (at least to me) disadvantage. It's much slower to participate in web-based forums (even using the nntp bridge, which I do), than in newsgroups. I do participate but because it takes me so much longer, my participation is at a lower level. Ken Blake, MVP wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:02:33 -0500, "sharkman" wrote: Are there any out there? Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that there will be any Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroups. Apparently Microsoft has decided that web-based forums are better than newsgroups and they are putting their efforts there. I'm personally sorry that's the case, but it's their decision, not mine. However there is at least one non-Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroup: alt.windows7.general. Not all servers carry it (at least not yet), but here's one free news server that does: aioe.org |
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