Updated: September 9, 2025 (January 13, 2024)

There Is a Plan for Project

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The latest repositioning of Microsoft Planner will see it absorb Project for the Web, but leaves Project Desktop and Project Server unaltered.

Project for the Web capabilities have become part of an updated Planner cloud service, as premium subscription features.

Project Server SE and Project Desktop remain supported and unchanged with no announced retirement date.

Sept. 8, 2025: Microsoft has announced that Project Online will be retired effective Sept. 2026.

Project for the Web will become part of a “new Planner” cloud service rolling out in 2024. Since Project for the Web’s introduction in 2019, Microsoft has stated the service would replace Project Online over time. Microsoft has now altered those plans, indicating an intention to continue with Project Server and Project Desktop for in-depth “waterfall” project management while focusing on Planner for lightweight task and project management capabilities. The Project Online service will shut down in Sept. 2026 and remove access to all customer data in the service, so customers should immediately start migrating to an alternative.

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