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From: sheana on 10 Aug 2010 06:15 Forgot to ask, where can I find these web forums for Microsoft? Thanks in advance. "Alias" <aka(a)hewhoismasked&anonymous.com> wrote in message news:i1s0lm$62k$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 07/17/2010 11:43 AM, sheana wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I subscribe to a number of MS newsgroups, but, for example, when I >> clicked on the newsgroup for word.general I got a message that that >> newsgroup was not available from the MS server. Is MS phasing out the >> communities/newsgroups? Let me know, because I find them incredibly >> helpful. Thanks in advance. > > They're history. MS wants you to go to their web forums where they can > control the content and suppress free speech (and not to mention having a > new Hotmail account they can sell to spammers as valid). Other news > servers are still carrying MS groups but for how long is not known. > > -- > Alias
From: Peter Taylor on 10 Aug 2010 06:45 On 8/10/2010 12:15 PM, sheana wrote: > Forgot to ask, where can I find these web forums for Microsoft? Thanks > in advance. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx -- Peter Taylor
From: Steve Cochran on 10 Aug 2010 07:09 That's the old one that will go away with the NGs. Here is the new one: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories steve "Peter Taylor" <noemailspam(a)please.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i3ral0$e2l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 8/10/2010 12:15 PM, sheana wrote: >> Forgot to ask, where can I find these web forums for Microsoft? Thanks >> in advance. > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx > > -- > Peter Taylor
From: Peter Taylor on 10 Aug 2010 07:24 On 8/10/2010 1:09 PM, Steve Cochran wrote: > > That's the old one that will go away with the NGs. Here is the new one: > > http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories > > steve > > "Peter Taylor"<noemailspam(a)please.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i3ral0$e2l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 8/10/2010 12:15 PM, sheana wrote: >>> Forgot to ask, where can I find these web forums for Microsoft? Thanks >>> in advance. >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx >> >> -- >> Peter Taylor Thanks for the correction. -- Peter Taylor
From: RobF on 10 Aug 2010 11:06
"Steve Cochran" <scochran(a)oehelp.com> wrote in message news:eV02KyHOLHA.1796(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... That's the old one that will go away with the NGs. Here is the new one: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories steve "Peter Taylor" <noemailspam(a)please.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i3ral0$e2l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 8/10/2010 12:15 PM, sheana wrote: >> Forgot to ask, where can I find these web forums for Microsoft? Thanks >> in advance. > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx > > -- > Peter Taylor Many thanks, Steve. I was going round and round MS, binging and webbing and linking to the point of distraction and beyond. What a fine and simple solution, your link. -- RobF |