Windows 7: devices and newsgroups

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Is anyone ever going to create newsgroups like
Microsoft.Public.Windows.7.xxx?

And, a comment: I installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on an old SIS-
741-based motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP processor. It works great.

The drivers for the SIS-964 built-in Ethernet were never built for Vista,
but amazingly, the XP drivers worked fine for this device. The driver file
that Windows 7 is using is called SISNICXP.SYS.

I also pointed Windows 7 to the folder with the "i386" drivers for the
Promise SATA-300 TX4 add-in card (ulsata2.inf), and it happily installed
the SYS files, and the attached SATA disks work fine.

Windows 7 found the AC '97 audio drivers on Windows Update. I meant to
disable the audio on this computer since I'm not going to use it, but I
forgot. (My computers that do audio, have much better audio add-in cards
than a built-in AC '97 chip!)

I'm encrypting two of the 500 GB SATA disks with BitLocker now. It is a
very slow process, but I'll only have to do it once.

I'm happily amazed that the "i386" drivers for the SATA controller, and the
SIS-964 Ethernet drivers from Windows XP, worked in Windows 7.


David Walker
 
Microsoft are moving over to forums rather than newsgroups. You will find
the Windows 7 forum at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro

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DWalker07 said:
Is anyone ever going to create newsgroups like
Microsoft.Public.Windows.7.xxx?
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It is fairly unusual for OS betas to have public newsgroups.

I would expect that newsgroups would not be created until the OS actually
ships.

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