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Windows XP
X
Windows Vista (only "Business", "Ultimate" and Windows 2003 Server "Enterprise" edtions) Windows 2008 Server
X X X
Windows 7
X
Platform support restriction Limited support from Operating System vendor Platform support deadline No support from Operating System vendor Additional "post mortem" QA procedures for platform
Support ends January 14, 2020 Support ends July 10, 2018 Until December 31, 2020 Until June 30, 2019
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X: GUI / Platform combination is preferred X: GUI / Platform combination is available o: GUI / Platform combination is NOT available
A given combination of Windows operating system and SAP GUI release is supported as long as both the operating system AND the SAP GUI release is supported. Clients can also be used to access SAP via Terminalserver or Citrix Presentation Server. End of Support for SAP GUI for Windows 6.20 / 7.10
On 31st of December 2010 support for SAP GUI for Windows 6.20 ended. If you are using this release of SAP GUI for Windows please upgrade to SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 as soon as possible. On 12th of April 2011 support for SAP GUI for Windows 7.10 ended. If you are using this release of SAP GUI for Windows please upgrade to SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 as soon as possible.
Appendix: Operating System Lifetime (defined by OS vendor) End of Life: 30/2006 (on Windows 98 "paid incident" support Entering Non-Supported phase: 1/2004 (*) basis) End of Life: 6/2004 Windows NT 4.0 Entering Non-Supported phase: 6/2003 (*) End of Life: 6/2010 Windows 2000 Entering Extended Support phase: 6/2005 (*) End of Life: 4/2014 Windows XP Professional Entering Extended Support phase: 4/2009 (*) End of Life: 7/2015 Windows 2003 Server Entering Extended Support phase: 7/2010 (*) End of Life: 4/2017 Windows Vista Entering Extended Support phase: 6/2012 (*) End of Life: 7/2018 Windows 2008 Server Entering Extended Support phase: 7/2013 (*) End of Life: 1/2020 Windows 7 Entering Extended Support phase: 1/2015 (*) End of Life: 7/2018 Windows 2008 R2 Server Entering Extended Support phase: 7/2013 (*)
(*) see also: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect