Microsoft Products – End of support timeline
Below is the timeline of the support lifecycle for the major Microsoft products.
There are two types of end of support, mainstream and extended: after the first one, no more operating system Service Packs will be released, while the second one marks the end of the release for the more important security updates, which are guaranteed even after the end of mainstream support.
The extended support ends generally 5 years and 1 day after the end of mainstream support.
We highlighted in red the dates already outdated or next to come.
Client Operating Systems
Windows XP SP3 – Mainstream: April 14, 2009 – Extended: April 8, 2014
Windows Vista SP2 – Mainstream: April 10, 2012 – Extended: April 11, 2017
Windows 7 SP1 – Mainstream: January 13, 2015 – Extended: January 14, 2020
Windows 8.1 – Mainstream: January 9, 2018 – Extended: January 10, 2023
Server Operating Systems
Windows Server 2003 SP2 – Mainstream: July 13, 2010 – Extended: July 14, 2015
Windows Server 2008 SP2 – Mainstream: January 13, 2015 – Extended: January 14, 2020
Windows Server 2012 – Mainstream: January 9, 2018 – Extended: January 9, 2023
Office Suite
Office XP SP3 – Mainstream: July 11, 2006 – Extended: July 12, 2011
Office 2000 SP3 – Mainstream: June 30, 2004 – Extended: 14 luglio 2009
Office 2003 SP3 – Mainstream: April 14, 2009 – Extended: April 8, 2014
Office 2007 SP3 – Mainstream: October 9, 2012 – Extended: October 10, 2017
Office 2010 SP2 – Mainstream: October 13, 2015 – Extended: October 13, 2020
Office 2013 SP1 – Mainstream: April 10, 2018 – Extended: April 11, 2023
DBMS (DataBase Management System)
SQL Server 2000 SP4 – Mainstream: April 8, 2008 – Extended: April 9, 2013
SQL Server 2005 SP4 – Mainstream: April 12, 2011 – Extended: April 12, 2016
SQL Server 2008 SP3 – Mainstream: July 8, 2014 – Extended: July 9, 2019
SQL Server 2012 SP2 – Mainstream: July 11, 2017 – Extended: July 12, 2022
SQL Server 2014 SP1 – Mainstream: July 9, 2019 – Extended: July 9, 2024
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