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**Dzomlija** · 02-01-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by P. Jayant

It would be easier for users of Vista to refer to discussions on specific topics if all the Forums are listed as Microdsoft Newsgroups. Taking into account the fact that there are already some Newsgroups for Vista, it becomes a duplicate effort to collate all the comments on a given Vista topic from the Forums and the newsgroups.

The Forums also make life miserable by giving the time of posting a message as "so many hours or days or weeks in history". The Newsgroup method of giving the exact date and time when the message was posted makes it easy to search for a message. I also find that the Search function works far more efficiently in Newsgroups as compared with the Forums. The forum search draws a blank most of the times, whereas Newsgroup Search is successful most of the times.
So why not add all the forums to the Newsgroups with the standard prefix of microsoft.vista?
Besides, Outlook Express is far better organized for viewing discussions as conversations than the Forum organization.

P. Jayant

"Joining" the Vista Newsgroups and Forums would be a pointless endeavour, as the sheer number of re-directs required would almost certainly destroy the entire concept. And besides, many people people use the terms Newsgroup and Forum interchangeably, and the reason why its difficult to search for anything in either, is because both are peer-to-peer systems, with no real control over what gets posted. As is often the case, you need to wade through 100's of posts that are totally off topic to simply get to the one you want.

This sadly holds true for just about all Newsgroups and Forums out there.

02-01-2008	#2 (permalink)
Dzomlija Windows Vista x64 Ultimate 2,217 posts	Re: Why does Vista require Forums? Quote: Originally Posted by P. Jayant It would be easier for users of Vista to refer to discussions on specific topics if all the Forums are listed as Microdsoft Newsgroups. Taking into account the fact that there are already some Newsgroups for Vista, it becomes a duplicate effort to collate all the comments on a given Vista topic from the Forums and the newsgroups. The Forums also make life miserable by giving the time of posting a message as "so many hours or days or weeks in history". The Newsgroup method of giving the exact date and time when the message was posted makes it easy to search for a message. I also find that the Search function works far more efficiently in Newsgroups as compared with the Forums. The forum search draws a blank most of the times, whereas Newsgroup Search is successful most of the times. So why not add all the forums to the Newsgroups with the standard prefix of microsoft.vista? Besides, Outlook Express is far better organized for viewing discussions as conversations than the Forum organization. P. Jayant "Joining" the Vista Newsgroups and Forums would be a pointless endeavour, as the sheer number of re-directs required would almost certainly destroy the entire concept. And besides, many people people use the terms Newsgroup and Forum interchangeably, and the reason why its difficult to search for anything in either, is because both are peer-to-peer systems, with no real control over what gets posted. As is often the case, you need to wade through 100's of posts that are totally off topic to simply get to the one you want. This sadly holds true for just about all Newsgroups and Forums out there.
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