October 14, 2025, is a fateful day for a lot of Microsoft merchandise. Not solely is Home windows 10 shedding assist, however so are Home windows 10 2015 LTSC, and Enterprise, Training, and IoT variations of Home windows 10, model 22H2. Now, Microsoft has shared an advisory indicating that Visible Studio 2015 is ready to be killed off on the identical date as nicely.

Whereas most are aware of Visible Studio Code resulting from the truth that it is a light-weight however highly effective code editor, it’s really Visible Studio, which is Microsoft’s flagship built-in improvement atmosphere (IDE). Though Visible Studio 2022 is the newest version of the favored IDE, Microsoft nonetheless helps different variations, together with Visible Studio 2015, 2017, and 2019.

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft is ending prolonged assist for Visible Studio 2015. This model was launched on July 20, 2015, and remained in mainstream assist till October 13, 2020. After that, it entered prolonged assist, which can finish on the aforementioned 2025 date.

When it comes to what finish of assist means, Visible Studio 2015 and its related parts, runtimes, and merchandise will not obtain safety updates. This contains Visible Studio 2015 Neighborhood, Enterprise, Skilled, Shell, SDK, Group Basis Server (TFS), MSVC Instruments v140, and extra.

Microsoft has beneficial upgrading to a supported model of Visible Studio as quickly as potential. As a reminder, Visible Studio 2017 model 15.9 will obtain safety updates solely beneath prolonged assist, which lasts until April 13, 2027. In the meantime, Visible Studio 2019 model 16.11 will obtain prolonged safety updates via April 10, 2029. And eventually, Visible Studio 2022 model 17.4 is at the moment in mainstream assist however will get pleasure from prolonged assist beginning on January 12, 2027, and ending on January 13, 2032.

After all, Microsoft has insisted that clients transition to Visible Studio 2022 because it contains Copilot integration, built-in assist for Git, and .NET enhancements.