Windows 8

Windows 8 is tracked by BlackTree as an operating system or system software product. Its lifecycle page separates release identity, maintenance and security boundaries using the publisher's registered source.

Evidence status

Shown dates are scoped to the release and support phase named in the source. They should not be applied to other editions or service packs.

Product overview

Main capabilities

Application and workload execution
Hardware, networking and storage management
Security updates and platform maintenance

Typical use

Used on endpoints, servers, appliances, virtual machines or cloud instances.

Deployment

Installed on physical or virtual systems, or delivered as an appliance or cloud image.

Lifecycle records

Release	Boundary	Date
Published lifecycle	Fixed Lifecycle Policy	12 January 2016

Official sources

VERIFIED

Microsoft lifecycle discovery

Publisher reference registered; not automatically interpreted. A source link alone does not verify a lifecycle boundary.

Automatically registered from a structured publisher support matrix.

Open publisher source

Package vulnerability advisories

No OSV advisories are currently linked to this product identity. This is not evidence that the product has no vulnerabilities.