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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Windows 11?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/microsoft-windows-11.svg"><![CDATA[Windows 11 is an upcoming major version of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Announced on June 24, 2021, it is the successor to Windows 10, released in 2015. Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade to some compatible Windows 10 devices through Windows Update. Windows 11 will be officially released on October 5, 2021. ]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Windows 11</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Windows 11. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Windows 11 (Microsoft)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="What is the Windows 11 release strategy?">New versions of Windows 11 will be released once per year. Customers should always install the latest version before the current version reaches end of servicing to remain supported by Microsoft.</item>
        

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