Important Dates for Surface

Support for Surface hybrid laptop-tablets is basically five years; however, the situation is unusual because Surface is a combined hardware and software product. In general, hardware products are entitled to five years of Mainstream support, with no Extended support. During Mainstream support, hardware repairs or replacements and parts are available throughout the support life cycle. Services are free for products under warranty and available for a fee for products out of warranty. For Surface devices, any Surface software installed, embedded, or downloaded on the device (such as Windows RT or Windows 8 Pro) is subject to the software lifecycle support policy for that software (unlike other hardware devices, such as Xbox). As of this time, the details of Windows RT support on other vendors’ hardware have not been made available, but the OS likely will receive five years of Mainstream support at a minimum.

Date	Version	Event
Apr. 11, 2017	Surface with Windows RT