📢 Microsoft to retire OneDrive sync app on these platforms

Beginning January 1, 2022, Microsoft will start aligning the OneDrive Desktop application (sync app) support lifecycle with the Windows support lifecycle.

If you are running the OneDrive sync app on Windows 7 and participate in the Extended Security Update (ESU) program, you will continue to receive critical and important security updates (as defined by the Microsoft Security Response Center) until January 10, 2023.

 

If you are running the OneDrive sync app on Windows 8.1, you will no longer receive feature updates but will receive security fixes until January 10, 2023.

 

If you are running the OneDrive sync app on Windows 8, you will no longer receive updates or fixes as Windows 8 is no longer supported.

In order to focus resources on new technologies and operating systems, and to provide users with the most up-to-date and secure experience, beginning January 1, 2022, updates will no longer be provided for the OneDrive desktop application on your personal Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 devices. Personal OneDrive desktop applications running on these operating systems will stop syncing to the cloud on March 1, 2022, says Microsoft.

These dates are applicable to both OneDrive for Consumers and OneDrive for Business.