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Microsoft will no longer officially participate in a variety of product-support forums for some older software and hardware. Geeks.Online will continue to support these products. However, without support from Microsoft we may have less successful results.

The support for the below products will be discontinued as of July 2018
  • Windows 7, 8.1, 8.1 RT
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Internet Explorer 10
  • Office 2010, 2013
  • Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, Surface RT, Surface 2
  • Microsoft Band – this topic will be locked. Users are invited to participate in Microsoft Band 2 topic.
  • Mobile devices forum – Microsoft support will continue in “Other Windows mobile devices” topic
  • Zune – this topic will be locked, but will remain available for browsing

Source: Microsoft