While Windows 10 might seem to be the biggest casualty as a result of Microsoft's ax-swinging, Office and recent versions of Windows 11 are also set to be chopped.
Yesterday, Microsoft's director of product marketing for the Microsoft 365 portfolio reminded administrators that support for the Office 2016 and 2019 suites will end on October 14. In addition to familiar applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the 2016 or 2019 suffix, Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 will also retire, as will Skype for Business Server 2015 and 2019.
In July, Microsoft announced a stay of execution – at least in terms of security fixes – for Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, for users who had signed up for security updates (although it did not guarantee that any updates would be forthc