Is there a Windows 7 newsgroup?

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Sal said:
Looking for the equivalent of this newsgroup but for only for Windows
7. Does one exist?
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It appears that Microsoft has decided they would rather have moderated
groups on the web. As of now, there are no newsgroups for Windows 7 and
I would be very surprised if they created any.

M
 
It appears that Microsoft has decided they would rather have moderated
groups on the web. As of now, there are no newsgroups for Windows 7 and
I would be very surprised if they created any.

M
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Does that mean that anything negative (like about Vista) would be
deleted?
 
Sal said:
Does that mean that anything negative (like about Vista) would be
deleted?
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All it means is there is no newsgroups about Windows 7. However, I
wouldn't be surprised if all the trolls and garbage had something to do
with it.
 
All it means is there is no newsgroups aboutWindows7. However, I
wouldn't be surprised if all the trolls and garbage had something to do
with it.
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I wouldn't call Vista users who had legitimate complaints about the
poor performance of that OS trolls or garbage. These are people who
expected something at least as good as XP and wanted to voice their
opinion. And they had every right to do so.
 
Sal said:
I wouldn't call Vista users who had legitimate complaints about the
poor performance of that OS trolls or garbage.
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Maybe not, but there are plenty of posters in
ms.p.windows.vista.general who definitely deserve those terms.
 
Tim said:
Maybe not, but there are plenty of posters in
ms.p.windows.vista.general who definitely deserve those terms.
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As it is now most of the garbage in that group is generated by a handful
of trolls.

John
 
Sal said:
I wouldn't call Vista users who had legitimate complaints about the
poor performance of that OS trolls or garbage. These are people who
expected something at least as good as XP and wanted to voice their
opinion. And they had every right to do so.
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Who said I was talking about Vista users? Plenty of idiots in this forum
that don't use any form of windows that are trolls and loading this
place full of garbage.
 
Sal said:
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Does that mean that anything negative (like about Vista) would be
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YES. Microsoft is a business and a very profitable indeed so they need
to protect it from loonies, nutters and crackpots.
 
milt said:
All it means is there is no newsgroups about Windows 7. However, I
wouldn't be surprised if all the trolls and garbage had something to
do with it.
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It is all because MVPs are abusing microsoft customers on newsgroups so
it has been decided to make it all forum based so that MSFT can take
control of the events. MVPs are bunch of loonies and Obama has decided
to call it an EMERGENCY because they were spreading swine flue or H1N1.
MVP stands for Most Valuable Pig though there is nothing valuable in them.
 
Hey Piggy,

How come you didn't know that it is possible to read forums using NNTP
(or newsgroups as you call it)? Haven't you heard of something called
"Forums NNTP Bridge" Now you call yourself MVP but you didn't know this?

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/announce/thread/4d7bafd6-fcb6-4c86-85ec-906a055a8da6

Instructions are here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=13820&SiteID=927

Now this should keep you busy for sometime at your tender age of 78.

hth
 
Sal said:
Looking for the equivalent of this newsgroup but for only for
Windows 7. Does one exist?
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Flaky Windows 7 web-based forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/

Newsgroups:
alt.nl.os.windows.windows7
alt.windows7.general
it.comp.os.win.windows7
microsoft.public.it.windows7 <-- available at msnews.microsoft.com

No signs of "microsoft.public.windows7.general" so far.

(Dear Microsoft... Oh, never mind... :)
 
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