Beginning next month, Microsoft will start closing their support newsgroups in favor of support forums. I think this is a bad idea, but it has been fought by MVPs for sometime, the decision is made and can’t be changed. Microsoft claims this to be a good thing, but the biggest problem is that the URL for their support forums has the word “social” in it. Many companies block anything “social”. This means that those companies will no longer be able to get online support from Microsoft. If you participate in any public Microsoft forums, you should begin transitioning now. Microsoft says that newsgroups with the least amount of traffic is move first. I read this to mean that newsgroups related to FoxPro will be among the first. The Microsoft FoxPro forum can be found here. Read the announcement here.