Quality of Ubuntu List

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Sat, October 10, 2009 17:26, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> And compared to Microsoft Customer Support, there's really no
>> competition.
>> Personally, I think the main thing (or at least one of the main things)
>> that
>> will kill Microsoft and make its users migrate to Linux will be the
>> helpful
>> nature of our forums and mailing lists much like this. It's probably one
>> of
>> the biggest reasons I switched from Windows to Ubuntu.
>>
>
> Is there no mailing list or forum for MS Windows users to help each other?

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/newswhelp

In short: the newsserver is msnews.microsoft.com, and the groups are
microsoft.public.*
These groups are sometimes available on other usenet servers, but it is
better to post them on the Microsoft server because not all messages get
propagated back all the time.