Microsoft public windows 7 newsgroup

[sharkman]

Are there any out there?
thanks\
sharkman

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[Bruce Hagen]

Are there any out there?
thanks\
sharkman

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Microsoft Answers Windows 7 Forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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

 

[Leonard Grey]

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.

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.

 

[sharkman]

Thanks, Ken.
I found that one and there is a lot of bullcrap going on there.. I was
hoping for a moderated one like the ones for XP that I enjoyed so much when
I was running XP..
sharkman

 

[sharkman]

Thanks Leonard..

sharkman

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.

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks, Ken.
I found that one and there is a lot of bullcrap going on there..

Certainly true. But judicious use of your killfile eliminates a lot of
it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[Leonard Grey]

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.