where is the Windows 7 news group

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Steve said:
There isn't one. Windows 7 has no newsreader, so there are no newsgroups.

steve
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Windows Mail has no news reader? Can T-Bird be installed on Win7?

Alias
 
Alias said:
Windows Mail has no news reader? Can T-Bird be installed on Win7?
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You have to install Windows Live Mail from the internet, if you want a
Microsoft newsreader on Win7. It's even slower than ever now, with a really
childish interface. Yuck.

ss.
 
Alias said:
Windows Mail has no news reader? Can T-Bird be installed on Win7?
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I can't seem to find Windows Mail in Windows 7. I guess it will be
replaced by Windows Live Essentials (in this case Windows Live Mail).
 
You have to install Windows Live Mail from the internet, if you want a
Microsoft newsreader on Win7. It's even slower than ever now, with a really
childish interface. Yuck.
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But I assume that the many other third-party newsreaders such as Forte
Agent, my personal choice) will work with Windows 7. If they don't
work immediately when Windows 7 is released, they'll quickly be
modified and the new version will work with it,
 
Ken Blake said:
But I assume that the many other third-party newsreaders such as Forte
Agent, my personal choice) will work with Windows 7. If they don't
work immediately when Windows 7 is released, they'll quickly be
modified and the new version will work with it,
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Yeah, well that's pretty obvious. I did say "if you want a Microsoft
newsreader on Win7".

ss.
 
WLM works fine in Win7, I'm using it right now.
Agent 5.0 also works, using for news only.
Also using Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 for email only.
 
Synapse said:
You have to install Windows Live Mail from the internet, if you want a
Microsoft newsreader on Win7. It's even slower than ever now, with a really
childish interface. Yuck.
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Does Windows Live Mail support NNTP? How?
 
Felipe Alfaro Solana said:
Does Windows Live Mail support NNTP?
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Yes, of course it does. It always has done, like Windows Mail and Outlook
Express before it.
How?
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You aren't getting confused with Windows Live Hotmail, are you? That used
to be called Windows Live Mail, after it was called Hotmail, and Windows
Live Mail used to be called Windows Live Mail for Desktop.

ss.
 
Alias said:
Windows Mail has no news reader? Can T-Bird be installed on Win7?
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I can't seem to find Windows Mail in Windows 7. I guess it will be
replaced by Windows Live Essentials (in this case Windows Live Mail).
 
Synapse said:
Yes, of course it does. It always has done, like Windows Mail and Outlook
Express before it.


You aren't getting confused with Windows Live Hotmail, are you? That used
to be called Windows Live Mail, after it was called Hotmail, and Windows
Live Mail used to be called Windows Live Mail for Desktop.
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Yes, I think I'm getting confused. Can you explain to me where this
Windows Live Mail you mention (with support for NNTP) lives in Windows
7? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Thanks!
 
Bill Anderson said:
Thunderbird is working just fine for me in Windows 7 -- both mail and
newsreader. I'd forgotten that before I turned off Vista's User Account
Control, Vista used to insist I choose "run as administrator" any time I
started Thunderbird.
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Never had that happen here on Vista Home Premium running as a Standard
Account - you must have done something wrong...
 
Yeah, well that's pretty obvious.
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It is to me and to you. But it isn't necessarily obvious to everyone
reading here. Many newbies don't even realize that third-party
newsreaders exist. So I posted my message to clarify it for newbies,
not to tell you what you already knew, or to give you a hard time

I did say "if you want a Microsoft
newsreader on Win7".
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Yes, you did. And I understood you. But there might well be newbies
reading it that didn't know that they had the choice of a
non-Microsoft newsreader.
 
Windows Mail is not included in Windows 7 so there is no longer a built in application for
you to access the Newsgroups. You may access Newsgroups by installing a separate
application supporting NNTP. Windows Live Mail can be downloaded and installed
in order to gain this functionality. You can download Windows Live applications here:
http://windowslive.com/explore

Microsoft has established an excellent special web-based Windows 7 Beta Forum you can access here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/
 
Considering I'm an MVP for OE and WinMail and have been for 11 years, I am
quite aware of that.

steve
 
It is to me and to you. But it isn't necessarily obvious to everyone
reading here. Many newbies don't even realize that third-party
newsreaders exist. So I posted my message to clarify it for newbies,
not to tell you what you already knew, or to give you a hard time




Yes, you did. And I understood you. But there might well be newbies
reading it that didn't know that they had the choice of a
non-Microsoft newsreader.
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There are definitely still newbies who don't know there are
non-Microsoft choices for Usenet newsreaders.

Heck, there are still OLDIES who don't realize that, or know that the
Usenet even exists.

Still, this does not answer our question: Where are there Usenet
newsgroups for Windows 7 (as in msnews.microsoft.*). I checked out
the Technet groups, but of course they require the Web interface,
which I bought a standalone newsreader to be able to get away from the
web groups.

Donald L McDaniel
 
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