Is support for Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac going to be discontinued soon?

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I have 'Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition 9.4.2', and am very pleased with it - no problems. Is support for this application going to be discontinued soon, and force all users to move to 'Sophos Home'?

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bobcook · Answer

Hello Colin, 
 We will eventually migrate all users of the "classic" Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition to the new Sophos Home, but there is no specific date for this. Until this happens we will continue to fully support both versions. 
 Today users get to choose which version works best for them. We would like to believe that as Sophos Home gains more features and rich functionality, users will want to migrate from the "classic" version to that spiffy version. 
 The technical challenge with the automatic migration is that (as of today) anyone using Sophos Home needs to set up their account before installing the software. Obviously that won't work for the existing users who don't yet have an account. That team is working on various solutions to that challenge, but also doing a lot of feature development. Its always a matter of balancing the priorities. 
 Hope that helps.