Microsoft Windows Embedded end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Microsoft Windows Embedded, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- none: every version in the record is past vendor support on the read date
- Next end date
- none announced in the record
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Microsoft Windows Embedded: https://learn.microsoft.com/lifecycle/products/?terms=Windows%20Embedded (shown, not linked: the site refused our automated check; open it in your browser); the vendor notice is authoritative
- Record
- Microsoft Windows Embedded
- Kind
- operating system
- Versions in the record
- 6
- Versions past vendor support
- 6
- Essential Eight class
- an operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- Source
- endoflife.date/windows-embedded, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Microsoft Windows Embedded versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1-industry 8.1 Industry | 25 Nov 2013 | 10 Jul 2018 | 11 Jul 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 8.1-pro 8.1 Pro | 13 Nov 2013 | 9 Jan 2018 | 10 Jan 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| compact-2013 Compact 2013 | 11 Aug 2013 | 9 Oct 2018 | 10 Oct 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| posready-7 POSReady 7 | 10 Sep 2011 | 11 Oct 2016 | 12 Oct 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| compact-7 Compact 7 | 15 Mar 2011 | 12 Apr 2016 | 13 Apr 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| standard-7-sp1 Standard 7 SP1 | 28 Feb 2011 | 13 Oct 2015 | 13 Oct 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.