Brief information for users who have ever been on the Microsoft Answers forum for Windows, Edge, Office or other Microsoft products or have visited the Xbox forum. Their days are numbered, everything is being moved to Microsoft Q&A.
I already came across the corresponding message in the Microsoft Answers forum on July 4, 2025 (see screenshot below).
After 15 years, Microsoft Answers has come to an end and the Xbox forums are also closing. The linked Microsoft Q&A pages are the places to go. For me it is the logical consequence – 15 years ago the Microsoft Newsgroups died and MS Answers was introduced.
For many years I provided free support there as a community moderator, but I also retired from the active phase more than five years ago. As I still had the community moderator role in my profile for some forums, I was able to escalate bugs to Microsoft moderators via the US versions of the MS Answers forums in recent years. But that should be over soon.
I remember numerous changes to the forum software, which meant that features disappeared or didn't work from time to time. Back in 2018, I expressed some thoughts on the decline of the forums in the German article Microsoft reduziert Support in Answers-Foren, na und? At the time, nobody could have guessed that the quality of the company's software would also plummet.
