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Office 2016

Office 2016 reached end of life on October 14, 2025 and no longer gets security updates.

Status
End of life
Released
September 22, 2015
Active support until
October 13, 2020
Security updates until
October 14, 2025
Official lifecycle page
learn.microsoft.com
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Office 2016 reached end of life on October 14, 2025 and no longer gets security updates. Microsoft released it on September 22, 2015. Office 2016 and Office 2019 followed Microsoft’s Fixed Lifecycle Policy, with mainstream and extended support phases. Both stopped getting security updates on October 14, 2025.

Product
Microsoft Office
Version
2016
Sources
PageURL
Microsoft Lifecyclehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-office-2016

Questions

When did Office 2016 reach end of life?
Security updates for Office 2016 ended on October 14, 2025.
Is Office 2016 still supported?
No. Office 2016 no longer gets security updates.
When was Office 2016 released?
Office 2016 was released on September 22, 2015.
When did mainstream support for Office 2016 end?
Mainstream support, with bug fixes as well as security fixes, ended on October 13, 2020.

Sources

Every date comes from the vendor’s official lifecycle or release page: Microsoft Lifecycle and Windows release health, Ubuntu’s release cycle, Debian releases, the Python developer guide, the Node.js release schedule, php.net, Oracle’s Java SE support roadmap and Lifetime Support Policy, the .NET support policy, PostgreSQL versioning, Mozilla’s release calendar and Google’s Pixel update policy. Each record links its sources and shows the date they were checked.

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