But what you won’t find on this list is Silverlight.

For a rather extreme example, those with a MSDN Subscription can download software from 1992 such as Visual Basic 2.0 and Windows 3.1. Microsoft describes this “last resort option for customers who need to run certain legacy Microsoft products”.īut even after this point, you can usually get legacy software that you need. The next phase is known as “beyond end of support”, where even security updates are only available via the Extended Security Update Program. After this point, products enter into what’s known as “extended support”, where security patches are still widely available but any non-security updates usually require some sort of contract with Microsoft Unified Support. Most Microsoft products go through a series of phases starting with the end of “mainstream support”. This won’t be the case for Silverlight, which will no longer be downloadable after October 12, 2021. Normally when Microsoft decides an end-of-life date for a product, they really just mean “you shouldn’t be using this anymore, but we understand if you do”.

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