Updated: July 15, 2020 (November 2, 2015)

Products Leaving Extended Support

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Several product versions covered in the Roadmap will be leaving Extended support in the next 24 months. After Extended support ends, Microsoft only offers fixes for security vulnerabilities to customers who have custom support contracts, which are expensive and not available in all circumstances. Consequently, organizations running products after Extended support face considerable risks or costs. For a complete list of enterprise software leaving Extended support in the next 24 months, see support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=&Filter=FilterES&esdate=24.

Date	Product Exiting Extended Support
2015
Oct. 13	Communicator 2005
Dec. 31	Antigen products
	Forefront Protection products
	Forefront Security products
2016
Jan. 12	Internet Explorer (multiple versions, see p. 10)
	.NET Framework 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 (see p. 51)
	Windows 8 (see pp. 9 and 10)
	Windows Phone 8 (see p. 12)
Apr. 12	Data Protection

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