Products with an asterisk (*) are being discontinued altogether.
There's a lot to take in here because there are so many products and versions that are still supported. Windows 10 Enterprise (All versions released in 2015, including LTSB) Windows 8 (All versions, including Windows 8.1) System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (All versions) SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.1 for Terminal Services SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2 for Desktops SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.1 for Desktops If there's something not on this list, you can look it up here. Januis a close second, but since Windows 8 isn't as pervasive as Windows 7, it's not as big of a deal across the enterprise. Microsoftīy far the most important day for us in the Microsoft section is January 14, 2020, which will see the end of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. This isn't really intended to be comprehensive, and other vendor timelines are harder to find, so if you have your own timeline to share please leave them in the comments. Of course, any of this can change, so this article itself has an End of Life date of April 13, 2016. Each company calls their End Of Life something else, it seems, so the date you see here is the date that the product will cease to be supported in any “free” way (but I’m sure if you’re willing to pay you can get bespoke support forever). So with that in mind, let this serve as a Public Service Announcement for product lifecycles that we care about. After all, two years ago when we were fighting to get off of Windows XP (Apwill be stuck in my brain forever!), we looked at the expiration date of Windows 7 (January 14, 2020) and thought “That’s an eternity!” Now it’s less than four years away, which means we’re two years away from hardcore planning to migrate. EOL dates aren’t something everyone pays attention to, and they have a habit of sneaking up on us.
While I know you can go get this information on your own, I decided to collect what I found and post it here. I recently saw an article about how Windows Vista was going to reach its End of Life next April, which led me to look into the EOL dates for other products that we deal with on a daily basis.
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