Windows Support

Microsoft only supports a given version of Windows until its EOL (End-Of-Life) date. In rare circumstances, security updates are released for unsupported versions of Windows. Below, is a chart of Microsoft OS EOL dates for the listed versions of Windows.

Name	Release date	Version	Editions	Latest build	Support status
Windows NT 4.0	1996-08-24	NT 4.0	Windows NT 4.0 Workstation	1381 (Service Pack 6a)	Mainstream support ended on June 30, 2002 Extended support ended on June 30, 2004
Windows 2000	2000-02-17	NT 5.0	Professional	2195	Mainstream support ended on June 30, 2005 Extended support ended on July 13, 2010
Windows Me	2000-09-14	4.9	N/A	3000	Mainstream support ended on December 31, 2003 Extended support ended on July 11, 2006
Windows XP	2001-10-25	NT 5.1	Windows XP Starter Windows XP Home Windows XP Professional Windows XP 64-bit Edition Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (July 8, 2006)	2600 (Service Pack 3)	Mainstream support ended on April 14, 2009 Extended support ended on April 8, 2014
	2005-04-25	NT 5.2	Windows XP Professional x64 Edition	3790 (Service Pack 2)
Windows Vista	2007-01-30	NT 6.0	Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Ultimate	6002 (Service Pack 2)	Mainstream support ended on April 10, 2012 Extended support ended on April 11, 2017
Windows 7	2009-10-22	NT 6.1	Main article: Windows 7 editions Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Thin PC	7601 (Service Pack 1)	Mainstream support ended on January 13, 2015 Extended support ended on January 14, 2020
Windows 8	2012-10-26	NT 6.2	Main article: Windows 8 editions Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Enterprise	9200	Unsupported as of January 12, 2016
Windows 8.1	2013-10-17	NT 6.3	Main article: Windows 8 editions Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 8.1 Enterprise Windows 8.1 with Bing	9600	Mainstream support ended on January 9, 2018 Extended support ended on January 10, 2023
Windows 10	2015-07-29	NT 10.0 (retroactively referred to as version 1507)	Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Pro Windows 10 Enterprise Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (formerly LTSB) Windows 10 Education	Continuously updated	Supported Support ends on October 14, 2025
Windows 11	2021-10-05	10.0.22523.1000	Windows 11 Home Windows 11 Pro Windows 11 Education Windows 11 Enterprise Windows 11 Pro Education Windows 11 Pro for Workstations Windows 11 Mixed Reality	Continuously updated	Supported

Mainstream support:

Mainstream support for a version of Microsoft Windows is support in the form of updates that lasts for a set period of time.

Extended support:

Extended support is continued support of Microsoft Windows with reduced features until the end of its lifecycle.

Version:

A version of Windows is the iteration identification number of the given release of it through new models or updates to Microsoft Windows.

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