According to this site, Microsoft is planning on phasing out the old newsgroups and helping users transition to Microsoft Answers, Technet, and MSDN. What are your thoughts on this. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=6097&tag=nl.e539

My 20Gb Western Digital HD crashed & would only clank at the BIOS screen. And it clanked & prevented a boot no matter how else I tried -- to Startup Diskette, to BootIT NG Maintenance Diskette, or slaved after switching HDs! But my 40 GB Maxtor did boot by itself with its full system backup,...

I suppose we should do this soon, since the Usenet issue is now out of the way. It is only a matter of time... perhaps a few still here and lurking wish to say goodbye. To all: I think we have had a good long and fruitful run here on Microsoft. Lots of good information has passed from those who...

Hi 98 Guy, Thanks to you and everyone. FYI: The reason I mentioned, "remove "ine"...." incase someone decides to reply by email. I didn't want his/her email to "bounce". John

Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to...

I was on this page: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx and I selected (expanded) the microsoft.public.win98 tree (on the left side), and then went back (scrolled down) to select microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion and after a minute or two I...

FWIW, even though I though Gary was a jerk and we had a serious and permanent falling out within a few days of our first thread, I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status" in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think you should drop the subject. I for...

Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server shutdown. In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying this: ----------- Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown? All...

Does anyone know how to do this in a DOS batch file? Normally when I run this windows online program and am finished and close it down, I have to then type "S" to stay connected online (otherwise, the default behavior is to disconnect from being online (I'm using dial-up). So instead, I'm...

I need to buy 1 Sun Java 5 license to continue internal safety and external security testing on Windows 98 Second Edition. I tried calling Oracle and they said contact Sun. I contacted Sun and they said contact their partner network. I contacted their partner network and no response. In...

Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server shutdown. In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying this: ----------- Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown? All...

Hi, Can someone tell me what is the highest version of Adobe Reader I can use on my Windows 98se computer? Thank You in Advance, John PS, Remove "ine" from my email address

"Hot-text" kirjoitettu: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,news.admin.misc ,,, some no more! When Microsoft unplug their NNTP server it will have a big impact UseNet community because they are not servers. For UseNet community are nntp...

When MS pulls the plug on their servers, here´s other servers which carry some of the Microsoft Public News groups. News Servers (free) search: AIOE http://news.aioe.org/ Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en CNNTP http://www.cnntp.org/cnntp - cnntp.org ETT ...

Does anyone know how to do this in a DOS batch file? Normally when I run this windows online program and am finished and close it down, I have to then type "S" to stay connected online (otherwise, the default behavior is to disconnect from being online (I'm using dial-up). So instead, I'm...

"Hot-text" kirjoitettu: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,news.admin.misc ,,, some no more! When Microsoft unplug their NNTP server it will have a big impact UseNet community because they are not servers. For UseNet community are nntp...

On 2010-05-04, wrote: Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups Which won't remove them from usenet, as most newsservers since long don't automatically honour rmgroup...

On Apr 19, 2:17*pm, Robert Macy wrote: On Apr 17, 1:31*am, thanatoid wrote: ....snip... Yeah, linus is starting to get my vote, too. Uh, ...I meant Linux.

According to this site, Microsoft is planning on phasing out the old newsgroups and helping users transition to Microsoft Answers, Technet, and MSDN. What are your thoughts on this. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=6097&tag=nl.e539

I'm not sure exactly when this was written: http://techsnap.co.uk/reviews/windows-98se-in-2009/ But there is a 4-part video version...