With the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Service Pack 1 and CRM Online Spring ‘14 releases, Microsoft are reviewing the list of supported configurations to keep current with technology.
Changes in supported platform software
For the next release, The following operating systems will be unsupported for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server:
Support for the following versions of SQL Server will be removed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server:
Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook support will be removed for:
Currently, Microsoft plan to target Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server only on Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and SQL Server 2012 for the next release time frame.
Microsoft are exploring support for SQL Server 2014 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server, but no decision has been made yet.
Support for Exchange 2007 connectivity to and from the CRM Email Router will be deprecated, which means that only basic testing will be done and on Exchange 2007 and this capability will be removed in the near future.
Support for Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 will be removed.
Note that Internet Explorer 8 and 9 will not route to Microsoft Dynamics CRM for phones by default, they will continue to route to the main application. However, they won’t provide an optimal experience and any issues reported will need to be validated on a supported browser.