Difference-Microsoft Communities and msnews.microsoft.com

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Allan J. Behr said:
Microsoft Communities and msnews.microsoft.com
What is the difference?
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(ms)news.microsoft.com are DNS names for Microsoft's NNTP (newsgroups)
server while Microsoft Communities is a general name for all things (one of
which are newsgroups) Microsoft has for us to interact with Microsoft
employees and uhm... community.

Following is a category list taken from
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx:

- Blogs
- Technical Chats
- Newsgroups
- Webcasts
- Community Web Sites
- User Groups
- Forums
 
i think he means within the new windows mail interface... when you setup a
news group you are asked if you want to activate communities. this is the
same as the newsgroup but lets you rate posts
 
Allan J. Behr said:
What is the difference?
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In Windows Mail if you look you will see that Microsoft Communities also
uses msnews.microsoft.com as its news server. However, if you use the
pre-installed Microsoft Communities it also includes the metadata to provide
features from the Web interface, like the ability to rate posts if you have
signed in with your Passport/Windows Live ID. If you set up a new news
account for msnews.microsoft.com you will not have access to or send this
metadata. You will also find loading a newsgroup to be faster.
 
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