Re: Microsoft Discussion Groups Question

When you say 'this forum', are you speaking of the Web interface that you are posting from now? That is not a forum. It is a 'portal' to msnews.microsoft.com newsgroups. These newsgroups are going to be slowly eliminated starting June 1, and taking about a year to complete. As these newsgroups disappear, so will the counterparts in the Web interface. Get used to posting at Microsoft Answers. That will be the only place to do so soon.

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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"JamesJ" <JamesJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F9730768-80C8-467E-87A0-660B8A4D36AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the "filter" suggestion.
But, I'm aware of the forum addresses for office and mse. I would think it
would make sense for these to be included in this forum. Especially when ms
is abandoning newsgroups. I guess they enjoy making it difficult for people.
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James


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Not exactly filter, but when you subscribe, you can set My Forums to only
show the ones you want when clicked on,

Microsoft Security Essentials Forums
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/mse

Microsoft Office Forums
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/group/Office
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"JamesJ" <JamesJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:733D714C-AC42-4B6F-BE1E-4E57E3C485D7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> undersdtand that Microsoft is abandoning newsgroups for the web > forums
> (I hope I phrased that correctly.)
> For the first time I went lurking in the Microsoft Discussion Groups.
> My problem is I couldn't find a category for any Microsoft Office
> products
> or Microsoft Secutrity Essentials. Maybe I didn't look long enough.
> If I did and there are no categories for these products here why do > we
> need
> to go to a separate forum for these. Why aren't they all in the same
> place?
>
> Also is there a way to filter the categories so I can only be exposed > to
> the
> microsoft categories?
>
> -- > James

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