Forecast 5 Support Policy - Supported Operating Systems

Unfortunately we are constrained by Microsoft's support of our development environments and operating systems.

As such we can only support Operating Systems that are still within mainstream support.

Below is a list of Windows operating systems and their current support status:

Operating systems	Latest update or service pack	End of mainstream support	End of extended support
Windows XP	Service Pack 3	April 14, 2009	April 8, 2014
Windows Vista	Service Pack 2	April 10, 2012	April 11, 2017
Windows 7*	Service Pack 1	January 13, 2015	January 14, 2020
Windows 8	Windows 8.1	January 9, 2018	January 10, 2023
Windows 10, released in July 2015**		October 13, 2020	October 14, 2025
Windows Server 2012		January 9, 2018	January 10, 2023
Windows Server 2012 R2		January 9, 2018	January 10, 2023