{"id":504522,"date":"2019-05-02T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=504522"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:14:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:14:56","slug":"support-for-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-is-ending-what-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/administration\/support-for-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-is-ending-what-does-that-mean","title":{"rendered":"Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Is Ending \u2014 What Does that Mean?"},"author":6311,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37501],"tags":[25591,42301,42181,33331],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36561,36991],"class_list":["post-504522","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-arcgis-enterprise","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-windows-7","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Microsoft is ending support in January 2020. 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