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2020-05-21
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Oleksandra Vakariuk
Like Graphisoft products, different operating systems (OS) have their own life cycle, which starts with the release and ends by the date told by the OS provider. This article is a guideline on how we support our products on different operating systems.
Graphisoft products (Archicad, BIMcloud and BIMx) are following the support cycle of the different OS provided by their vendors.
Windows
Archicad and BIMcloud compatibility follows the official schedule released by Microsoft. Our products are supported for those Windows versions which has the mainstream support by Microsoft. Operating systems which are already in their extended support timeframe, are not supported by Graphisoft anymore.
Once an operating system is not supported by Microsoft anymore, we stop to support our products on these operating systems as well.
macOS
Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not officially release information on OS version releases and lifecycles in a schedule or forecast.
As a general practice, we support the latest officially released macOS version and the previous version. This aligns with the general practice of Apple, which encourages people to stay up-to-date with their macOS system.
During the transition period when Apple releases the latest macOS, we extend our current compatibility to provide a smooth transition for the update of both macOS and Archicad / BIMcloud.
We also recommend to always stay up-to-date with the latest macOS.
Android / iOS
On mobile platforms we constantly monitoring which versions of Andorid and iOS are used heavily by our users. Based on these statistics and the necessary technology behind our products, we adjust our support to the available OSes.
Android 8.0 Oreo and above
iOS 12.0 and above