Usenet should be accessed by a newserader (Score 0)

I find the unstructured nature of the web very inconvenient to search the USENET (read Google Groups). If you really want a disciplined approach towards accessing the USENET, make use of a dedicated client and a free newsgroups server...especially since these servers (unlike Google's) do not archive very old posts. I use Windows Live Mail Desktop and an Italian newsgroups server and they work perfectly in tandem. If your searches are Microsoft-specific, you might connect directly to their own USENET server (which only hosts Microsoft related topics). Certain Microsoft forums (from MSDN), however, do not have a USENET reflection. Though I'm forced to access the web to post a query in such a case, I can use an RSS reader (like FeedDemon) to access their rss feeds.