Cannot post question to Windows Vista Community Forum

[Gillian]

Hello and a Happy New Year.
Sorry to post a Windows question here, but it's all I could think to do.
I am logged in and can post to this forum with no trouble. I am trying to
post to the Windows Vista Community, but that page thinks I'm not logged in
and when I click 'New Question' keeps returning me to the list of posts
instead of opening up a new question box. The little 'Sign In' icon is also
displaying in the top right and I've tried signing in again, but it doesn't
take me to the sign in page, just returns me to the page I was viewing
previously.
I navigated straight to this page from the other using my stored
favourites, and it displays 'Sign out' at the top right.

I'm using Windows Vista Professional (very new) and my cookies are currently
set to low. Any ideas, anyone?

 

[Peter Foldes]

There seems to be an issue since Dec23 with the MS servers. They have been very
flakey. See the following posted by Beth Melton MS MVP

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The web interface on microsoft.com to access the newsgroups has been
experiencing technical difficulties for several days. If you are unable to
find replies to your posts you have the following options:

- Click in the "Search For" text box near the top of the page and type your
name, and click Go. The Search Results will display your posts and replies.
- The majority of those who utilize the newsgroups use an alternate
newsreader, such as Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail to access the
newsgroups. Click this link to add the office.misc (Office General)
newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.misc

To find your replies in Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail use one of the
following:
- Click View/Current View/Show Replies to My Messages (Ctrl+H)
- Click Edit/Find/Message, use the From, Subject, or Message text boxes and
enter your search criteria

To obtain a list of all newsgroups you subscribe to click the Newsgroup
button

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