One BIG rerason for the decay in the newsgroups

You never put Windows 7 on the newsgroups. You put 64 bit which coverts all three O/S's
I you would have put all the Windows 7 N/G's I think you would have seen a gain instead of
a decline.

 

You WHO? This is Usenet, not some free venue for support from
Microsoft. You are talking to other users, NOT to Microsoft.

What is Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
http://www.masonicinfo.com/newsgroups.htm
http://www.mcfedries.com/Ramblings/usenet-primer.asp

And just what might your post have to do with VirtualPC, the topic of
this newsgroup?

You want the Windows 7 newsgroup sliced up into bit-versioned newsgroups
despite it never happened for the older XP and Vista newsgroups. Uh huh.

There is a general 64-bit Windows newsgroup at:
microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
(Never visited there. Can't tell you if it will be helpful to you.)

If you want a Windows 7 newsgroup (versus having to use Microsoft's
web-based forums), go visit alt.windows7.general.