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What is the future of Sophos Home License?

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The current software image used for Sophos Home only supports Intel Processors but Sophos has moved to using AMD processors for the XGS models.

The older XG models with Intel processors are going EOL in a couple of years. If Sophos are not going to support paid licences on Intel processors, it is very difficult to see them continuing to support Intel processors for Home licences from which they get no income.

So what is the future of Sophos Home? Are Sophos going to move to it being an AMD processor product (with UEFI support)? Will people have to throw away their Intel processor based hardware? Or are Sophos going to provide extended support for Intel processors in the software image?



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    So most likely SFOS will work on a X86 compatible Processor. But in times of "newer hardware", it might be a good move to get a hypervisor involved, like KVM or other lightweight hypervisor, as they can most likely give you full hardware support. 

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    What you say may be true from a technical point of view but the point of Home is to get people, who often aren't very technical, involved with the Sophos product. If you have to setup a hypervisor environment before you can even think of installing Home, you are going to have lost most of your target market before you have even started.

    If Sophos truly want people to try SFOS, you should be making it as easy as possible to do that, not making it a 'nerd level' installation.

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    What you say may be true from a technical point of view but the point of Home is to get people, who often aren't very technical, involved with the Sophos product. If you have to setup a hypervisor environment before you can even think of installing Home, you are going to have lost most of your target market before you have even started.

    If Sophos truly want people to try SFOS, you should be making it as easy as possible to do that, not making it a 'nerd level' installation.

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