where is the Windows 7 news group

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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/
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Great, Carey. But we don't want to use webnewsreaders. WE are the
Usenet, have always been the Usenet, and will always be the Usenet. WE
WANT USENET GROUPS, so we can use our OWN newsreaders.


Where aer they, Carey?
 
I think that is probably the ultimate outcome. MS has been moving away from
NNTP for awhile and now that they kill off OE / WinMail as part of the OS,
they put another nail in the coffin. And then another by not having any NGs
for Windows 7.

steve
 
That's not what others indicated. They said it was removed in the
installation of 7.

steve
 
Susan said:
What a funny discussion. I thought everyone got Tony's original post
wrong discussing news readers instead of what/where the Windows 7
USENET newsgroup was named/located. Now Carey drops the bombshell
that MS isn't going to do a newsgroup for Windows 7. Does that mean
they will slowly but surely close down all their existing USENET
newsgroups? I guess Agent will have to slowly turn into a forums
(browser) reader next?
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Where does Carey say that MS isn't going to do a newsgroup for Windows
7? I see where he points to a forum for the beta, but I don't see where
he says there won't be a newsgroup. Did I miss a post?
 
Steve said:
I think that is probably the ultimate outcome. MS has been moving away
from NNTP for awhile and now that they kill off OE / WinMail as part of
the OS, they put another nail in the coffin. And then another by not
having any NGs for Windows 7.

steve
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Hi Steve,

Did the Vista BETA have a newsgroup? For that matter did any of the
Windows BETA versions have a newsgroup?

Alias
 
Alias said:
Did the Vista BETA have a newsgroup? For that matter did any of the
Windows BETA versions have a newsgroup?
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XP did - microsoft.public.windowsxp.beta.general
 
Steve Cochran said:
I think that is probably the ultimate outcome. MS has been moving away
from NNTP for awhile and now that they kill off OE / WinMail as part of
the OS, they put another nail in the coffin. And then another by not
having any NGs for Windows 7.
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Turns out that Windows Live Mail does have support for NNTP. It's called
Microsoft Communities. Also, other NNTP accounts can be added, but turns out
you need to enable the menu bar in order to be able to access Tools ->
Accounts.
 
Alias said:
Hi Steve,

Did the Vista BETA have a newsgroup? For that matter did any of the
Windows BETA versions have a newsgroup?
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All private betas have their corresponding newsgroups. The problem is that
they require you to be enrolled in connect.microsoft.com (in the old times,
it was windowsbeta.com).
 
Felipe Alfaro Solana said:
Again, here's the official answer:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/2bbdeaef-687a-454c-8292-bb00b48f919e
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Which, again, does not say that MS is or isn't going to do a newsgroup
(or groups) for Windows 7. It only says that Technet forums don't have
NNTP access, and that they might consider adding NNTP access to Technet
forums in the future.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something
big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.
 
Bill 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. So when I installed Thunderbird in Windows 7 and
pointed it to the common Thunderbird email folder I use for all my OS
installations (five, now) I wasn't seeing any emails in my Thunderbird
inbox. Took a few minutes for me to remember to turn off UAC. Actually,
I confess I hadn't installed the very latest version of Thunderbird --
maybe the problem is fixed with the newer versions. The problem is
definitely fixed if you turn off UAC.

I will turn UAC on if anybody can persuade me the added security is
worth the annoyance. In the entire time I've been running Vista (more
than a year) I've never once wished I'd left UAC alone to do its job. No
security breaches, unwanted software installations, no disasters of any
kind. UAC -- I seem to be doing just fine without it.
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Installed the latest version of Thunderbird on Win7 32bit and there are
no UAC prompts when I start it. No UAC with Pegasus mail 4.4, Sunbird or
Gimp either. Don't know that it makes a difference with newer software
but I try to remember to use run as Administrator during installations.
 
Installed the latest version of Thunderbird on Win7 32bit and there are
no UAC prompts when I start it. No UAC with Pegasus mail 4.4, Sunbird or
Gimp either. Don't know that it makes a difference with newer software
but I try to remember to use run as Administrator during installations.
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Thanks. By coincidence I installed Thunderbird again last night on a
fresh installation of Windows 7 Beta. (I was starting over.) Once
again I have found myself forced always to answer yes to the window
that pops up when I start Thunderbird asking whether I want to allow
the program to make changes to my computer. I confess I probably
didn't right click the Thunderbird installation program to choose "run
as administrator." But now, the only way for me to start Thunderbird
successfully without first answering a question is to turn off UAC.
Is there no way to get around this? I don't want to turn off UAC
because (believe it or not) gadgets don't work in Windows 7 beta
unless UAC is turned on. Ideas, anyone? Thanks.

Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog
 
I was being moderately facetious.

MS has been slowly phasing out NNTP over the years. Elimination of an OS
based news program is one example and one more nail.

steve
 
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