Lifecycle
End of support, end of servicing, retirements, and moves to extended support from Microsoft's public lifecycle pages for 2026 and 2027.
38End of support · next 12 months7End of servicing · next 12 months41Retirement · next 12 months13Moves to extended support · next 12 months
Coming up · next 12 months
7 milestones- October 2026 · 2
- 13 Oct Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Modern Policy), 2025 release wave 1, version 26.x End of servicing
- 13 Oct Windows 11 Home and Pro, Version 24H2 End of servicing
- November 2026 · 5
- 10 Nov .NET 8 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov Azure IoT Edge, Version 1.5 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov PowerShell, PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov Windows 11 Enterprise and Education, Version 23H2 End of servicing
- 10 Nov Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, Version 23H2 End of servicing
Already passed this year
3- June 2026 · 1
- 6 Jun Microsoft Configuration Manager, Version 2409 End of servicing
- May 2026 · 1
- 12 May .NET 9 End of servicing
- April 2026 · 1
- 4 Apr Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Modern Policy), 2024 release wave 2, version 25.x End of servicing
Announced retirements and deprecations
18 from Azure Updates, the Windows message center, the roadmap, and Microsoft blogs- 1 Sep2026 Retirement: Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026
- 14 Oct2026 Retirement Update: SAP container images removed October 14, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on November 10, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node 22 LTS ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Aug2027 Retirement: Azure VMware Solution License-included service will be retired August 30, 2027
- 30 Sep2028 Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028
- No date Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deprecation in the next Windows Server release
- No date Introducing EWSAllowedAppIDs: Preparing for the Final Phase of EWS Retirement
- No date One month until Office LTSC 2021 end of support
- No date Retirement: Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service
- No date Retiring NTLM: Frequently asked questions
- No date Prepare for the removal of WMIC from Windows 11
- No date Help us shape Exchange Server on-premises to different online org Free/Busy after EWS retirement
- No date Upcoming retirement of OWA Light in Exchange Server
- No date Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
- No date Plan for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 end of support