Microsoft’s 2026 End-of-Support Apocalypse – aka, “Another Day, Another Forced Upgrade”

Well, grab your helmets, sysadmins, because Microsoft’s decided that 2026 is the year they finally push your poor, overworked systems off a cliff. Yup, Redmond’s axe is swinging again—this time ending support for a parade of beloved (and ancient) products including Windows 10 LTSC 2016 & 2019, Office 2016 & 2019, Exchange 2019, SharePoint 2019, PowerShell 7.2, .NET 6, and a buffet of Azure services. Because heaven forbid we get more than five bloody years of peace before another wave of forced upgrades and compatibility nightmares hits like a ton of flaming servers.

Windows 10 LTSC users, you’re screwed unless you fancy upgrading to 2021 or the 2024 mishap-with-a-background. Office 2016/2019? Dead. Time to rent your productivity tools forever through Microsoft 365 like a good little subscription drone. Exchange and SharePoint 2019 will get their last rites too, because apparently Microsoft can’t stand on-prem anything anymore. Move to Exchange Online or SharePoint Online they say—because who doesn’t love paying per user, per month, forever, for the privilege of giving up control?

PowerShell 7.2 and .NET 6 go poof as well, which means more “just-slightly-different” syntax adventures and dependency hell for every automation script you’ve ever written. And if you’re in Azure land – news flash – some services and APIs will vanish quicker than a helpdesk ticket marked “critical”.

So 2026 is shaping up to be the typical Microsoft apocalypse: half the infrastructure will break, licensing will get even more convoluted, and management will wonder why everything suddenly costs more. But don’t worry, the marketing team will call it “innovation.”

Full article, for those masochists who love reading what’s going to ruin their future weekends: Microsoft End of Support Products in 2026

Sign-off: Reminds me of the time I told my boss that upgrading Exchange was “just a weekend job.” Two weeks, three broken backups, and one nervous breakdown later, we were “upgraded.” Moral of the story? When Microsoft says “it’ll be easy,” start drinking. Cheers,

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