AluminiumTech's OS Support List

[AlTech]

Hi all,

This Thread is aimed at helping users understand which Operating Systems are no longer supported and which are supported.

 

Recent Operating Systems will be categorized as follows: "Supported" and "End Of Life". Operating Systems will be deemed End Of Life if they no longer receive updates or patches. To qualify as "Supported" an OS must have been updated in some shape or form within the 24 months and must be officially supported by the developer. 

 

Legend:

Operating Systems have been colour coded to make it easier to differentiate.

Ubuntu

Android

IOS

Windows 10 Mobile

Windows

Supported Operating Systems:

Ubuntu 17.10 - Supported Until July 2018

IOS 11 - Presumably Supported until August 2018

Windows 10 Build 15063 (Creators Update) - Supported Until September 2018

Android 6.0 Marshmallow - Supported until October 2018 *

Windows 10 Mobile Build 14393 (Anniversary Update) - Supported Until October 9th 2018

Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 - Extended Support until January 8th 2019

Windows XP Embedded POSready 2009 - Extended Support until April 9th 2019.

Windows 10 Build 16299 (Fall Creators Update) - Supported until March 2019

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Supported Until April 2019

Windows 10 Mobile Build 15063 (Creators Update) - Supported Until June 11th 2019

Android 7.0 Nougat -  Supported until August 2019 *
Android 7.1 Nougat - Supported until October 2019 *

Windows 10 Mobile Build 15254 (Fall Creators Update for Mobile) - Supported Until December 10th 2019

Windows 7 SP1 - Extended Support Until January 2020
Android 8.0 Oreo - Supported until August 2020 *

CentOS 6.9 and RHEL 6.9 - Support Until 2020

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Supported Until April 2021

Windows 8.1 - Extended Support Until January 2023

CentOS 7.0 - Support Until 2024
Tizen 3.0 - Unknown Support Period

 

End Of Life Operating Systems:

Android 4.3 - Support Ended in July 2016

Ubuntu 15.10 - Support Ended in July 2016

IOS 9 - Support Ended in August 2016

Windows Vista SP2 - Support Ended on April 11th 2017

Windows 10 Build 10240 (RTM Original Windows 10) - Support Ended on May 9th 2017

Windows Phone 8.1 - Supported Until July 2017.

Ubuntu 16.10 - Support Ended in July 2017

IOS 10 - Support Ended in July 2017

Android 4.4 KitKat - Support Ended in September 2017

Windows 10 Build 10586 (November Update) - Support Ended on October 10th 2017

Android 5.0 Lollipop - Supported Ended in November 2017

Windows 10 Mobile Build 10586 (November Update) - Supported Ended in January 2018
Windows 8.1 - Mainstream Support Ended in January 2018
Ubuntu 17.04 - Supported Ended in January 2018

Windows 10 Build 14393 (Anniversary Update)  - Support Ended in March 2018

Android 5.1 Lollipop - Support Ended in March 2018

 

 

Notes:

*1 - According to Google's Security Updates procedure

*2 - Depends on OEM and Hardware Support

*3 - Updates for Windows 10 are cumulative with each quality (bug fix/security) update building upon the previous.

*4 - For a Windows 10 device to remain up to date, it must be supported by the OEM and be compatible with the latest updates. Update availability may vary by OEM or Mobile Provider.

 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/search?alpha=Windows 10 Mobile

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4043450/products-reaching-end-of-support-for-2018

https://security.googleblog.com/

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3415518

https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

 

Thanks for reading. If you notice any mistakes or errors, please quote or mention me and ask me to fix it .

[vanished]

hm, that could actually be handy as a quick reference

 

What we need now to add to this is a list for how long certain devices will be supported for like phones getting android 8, 9, etc.

[AlTech]

 

13 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

What we need now to add to this is a list for how long certain devices will be supported for like phones getting android 8, 9, etc.

Depends on exact device but generally no more than 2 years of Major Android Updates (E.g. from 6.0 to 8.0 is best case scenario) .

 

Security updates also depends on Device. Google has said for Pixel and Pixel 2 that it will receive Security Updates for Up To 3 years after release.

[Max Caulfield]

Which build no is Creator's and Anniversary's update

[AlTech]

8 minutes ago, Max Caulfield said:

Which build no is Creator's and Anniversary's update

Good Point. I'm gonna add that in brackets.

 

Edit: Fixed.

[Radium_Angel]

So, if I read this right, you won't support my WinNT 4.0 build? ;-)

[ProjectBox153]

Awww, Windows 8.1 is losing mainstream support soon? That’s saddening. 

[AlTech]

12 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Awww, Windows 8.1 is losing mainstream support soon? That’s saddening. 

I'm guessing you're not a huge fan of 10.
 

Windows 8.1 was fine imho. I didn't use it much but it was better than Windows 7 other than the lack of a proper start menu.

[Enderess]

True, though I do personally prefer 10 over 7 and 8(.1), I did think that some people were taking the whole "WE HATE WINDOWS 8!" Thing way to far.

[ProjectBox153]

10 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm guessing you're not a huge fan of 10.
 

Windows 8.1 was fine imho. I didn't use it much but it was better than Windows 7 other than the lack of a proper start menu.

10 is ok, but it always has some weird bug that makes it slow, or Windows Explorer bugging out, or something. I recently switched to a new main system, so I decided I liked the lightning boot times of Windows 8.1 (yes on a mechanical hdd) better than Windows 10’s bugs. 

[AlTech]

Added Windows 10 Build 16299

[Enderess]

On 10/13/2017 at 8:15 PM, Alexsolo said:

Not. Far. Enough.

 

haha joking aside it was OKAY, but for someone going from an XP/Vista/7 environment it might have been tricky.

I work in tech support.. You'd be surprised by the amount of people that complained.

True, as I did go from Windows XP/7 computers to 8.1 randomly, as all of the PC's in our house were Windows 7 at the time, so it was a bit hard at first, but soon enough I got used to it. Though 10 is still a lot better in my opinion.

[vanished]

On 10/13/2017 at 9:14 PM, Alexsolo said:

You left out Windows XP :'(

It's so dead it doesn't even get mentioned

 

actually it might not hurt to throw it on there, and while your'e at it, Ubuntu 17.10 is now available.

[AlTech]

added information for Ubuntu 17.10

 

Thanks @vorticalbox for the heads up .

[AlTech]

On 10/20/2017 at 11:42 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

It's so dead it doesn't even get mentioned

 

actually it might not hurt to throw it on there, and while your'e at it, Ubuntu 17.10 is now available.

Yup .

 

Very ded and yet used by too many businesses.

[AlTech]

Added Windows 10 Mobile Build 15254 (Fall Creators Updates for Mobile).

[AlTech]

Moved Android 5.0 Lollipop to Discontinued Support.

[Toby Stibbles]

What about SUSE?

 

[AlTech]

On 11/14/2017 at 1:40 PM, Toby Stibbles said:

What about SUSE?

 

SUSE is not as popular as the other OSes listed but I can add it later if i have some spare time.

[Fetzie]

CentOS 6.9 and RHEL 6.9 are in the "security fix only" production phase and due to enter EOL at the end of 2020

CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 (current release 7.4) are currently in the Feature and Bugfix production phase (planned EOL in 2024).

[AlTech]

On 11/17/2017 at 6:14 PM, Fetzie said:

CentOS 6.9 and RHEL 6.9 are in the "security fix only" production phase and due to enter EOL at the end of 2020

CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 (current release 7.4) are currently in the Feature and Bugfix production phase (planned EOL in 2024).

I've added those in for now.

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Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 : Extended support until January 8th 2019

Windows XP Embedded POSready 2009 : Extended support until April 9th, 2019

 

Considering the amount of people who did the registry tweaks to get the security patches for the Embedded versions on their consumer XP, you may want to include these.

[AlTech]

On 11/21/2017 at 11:31 PM, Captain Chaos said:

Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 : Extended support until January 8th 2019

Windows XP Embedded POSready 2009 : Extended support until April 9th, 2019

 

Considering the amount of people who did the registry tweaks to get the security patches for the Embedded versions on their consumer XP, you may want to include these.

Added. Admittedly I haven't formatted those with a colour but they are on the list. Seriously tho, why can't businesses move on ?

[Guest]

On 11/27/2017 at 5:18 PM, AluminiumTech said:

Added. Admittedly I haven't formatted those with a colour but they are on the list. Seriously tho, why can't businesses move on ?

For someone I personally know, their software is made for DOS, and it works with other programs that are windows XP. The program crashes on 64 bit machines and doesn’t work on newer versions of windows. 

 

Additionally buying new new licenses is expensive. Last but most expensive... to get a new version of that kind of software costs 10,000 dollars or more PER computer. Not to mention having to learn a whole new program AND convert the files and customers over. 

[AlTech]

Dropped support for Ubuntu 17.04 as per Ubuntu's policies as well as Windows 10 Mobile Build 10586 and Windows 8.1 Mainstream Support as per their policies as well..