Did you know that various Microsoft products will be taken out of maintenance this year or at the beginning of next year? Here are a few products that A+W users may be using in connection with our software. Caution: These are not all Microsoft products for which the maintenance will be ceased in 2019 and 2020!
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft® will cease providing support for Windows Server® 2008 and 2008 R2. For additional information, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/cloud-platform/windows-server-2008.
On July 9, 2019 Microsoft® will cease providing support for SQL Server® 2008 and 2008 R2. For additional information, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sql-server/sql-server-2008.
Microsoft® is ceasing support for Windows® 7 on January 14, 2020. According to information from Microsoft®, after that, neither technical support nor automatic updates to protect PCs will be available. Therefore, Microsoft® urgently recommends that you switch to Windows® 10 before January 2020. For more information, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020.
Please visit the Microsoft® website directly to learn about other Microsoft® products for which support will no longer provided after the next few months.
If you have other questions about the termination of Microsoft systems, please contact your contact person at Microsoft. We hope that during your migration to the successor product, everything will go smoothly!