>> Microsoft doesn't provide groups focused on their betaware rather
>> than dilute the posts into groups that cover all released versions?
>> Figures.
> There are still the private beta newsgroups for all the technical beta
> testers. And all tech beta members are highly encouraged to post
> there.
That's what I was looking for when I went to their web pages for their
betaware. Maybe I missed it. I'm assuming by "private" that you mean
the microsoft.private.* groups (versus the microsoft.public.* groups).
Is there a web page showing what group(s) to use for their Office
betaware and how to connect (I had to supply login credentials for the
private MS Antispyware group so I figure the other private groups also
require logging in).

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Patrick Schmid - 31 May 2006 07:51 GMT
Actually the private beta newsgroups are microsoft.beta.office12.*
Access to them is restricted to the 10,000 members of the technical beta
of Office 12. If you were in the tech beta, you'd know ;) (You'd also
have access to betaplace and could submit bugs).
The other 490,000 users (500,000 Beta 2 copies were downloaded after a
few days) get to use these public newsgroups here...
Patrick
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> >> than dilute the posts into groups that cover all released versions?
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