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Last Updated: April 2, 2007 This is a list of relevant official End-of-Life dates for common products.
After the EOL date, vendors are no longer responsible for support the
product in question. Security updates announcement and development will
cease.
The Product Support Cycle:
- Active product support
- Mainstream support, post discontinuance (free and paid
support)
- Extended support (paid support only)
- End-of-Life (no support)
Mainstream support will end 5 years after release, or 2 years
after the next release, whenever is later. Extended support will end 5
years after that.
| Microsoft Operating
Systems |
EOL Date |
| Longhorn Server |
Yet to be released |
| Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate |
April 2017 |
| Vista Home Basic, Premium |
April 2012 |
| Small Business Server 2003 |
Active |
| Windows Server 2003 |
Active |
| Windows XP Professional, Home |
April 2014 |
| Windows 2000 Professional |
June 2010 |
| Windows 98 Second Edition |
2006 |
| Microsoft
Applications |
EOL Date |
| Office 2007 |
Active |
| Office 2003 |
January 14, 2014 |
| Office XP |
July 12, 2011 |
| Office 2000 |
July 14, 2009 |
| Office 97 |
January 16, 2004 |
| Intuit Applications |
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| QuickBooks 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
Active |
| QuickBooks 2003 and before |
2006 |
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Support provided |
Mainstream support
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Extended support
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| Paid support (per-incident, per hour, and others) |
X |
X |
| Security update support |
X |
X |
| Non-security hotfix support |
X |
Requires extended hotfix agreement, purchased within 90 days of
mainstream support ending. |
| No-charge incident support |
X |
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| Warranty claims |
X |
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| Design changes and feature requests |
X |
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| Product-specific information that is available by using the
online Microsoft Knowledge Base |
X |
X |
| Product-specific information that is available by using the
Support site at Microsoft Help and Support to find answers to
technical questions |
X |
X |
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