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Move the retirement date to October 16 across site, artwork, and evidence (#76)
Microsoft postponed the standalone Whiteboard app retirement from September 14 to **October 16, 2026**, on a new dedicated page ([Retirement of the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps)) that also states installed apps will then "display a retirement experience instead of opening". - Both hero SVGs: date text and aria-labels updated; timing comments made date-shift-proof - `site/index.html` caption + alt and `site/compare.html`: new date, links moved to the new support page - Card PNGs re-rendered from the updated SVGs with `tools/render-cards.ps1` (og-image and hero were unaffected and rendered byte-identical) - `docs/retirement/README.md` rewritten as a timeline of Microsoft's three schedule revisions, with citing rules updated — "the app stops opening on October 16" is now quotable, in Microsoft's own words Merging deploys the site with the corrected claim. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Microsoft Whiteboard retirement evidence
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The site and the launch campaign state that Microsoft retires its standalone Whiteboard
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app on **September 14, 2026**, citing
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[Migration of Whiteboards from Azure to OneDrive](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive).
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Microsoft edits that page as the wind-down proceeds, and the date has already been moved
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out of the page's headline sections. This folder preserves the evidence behind the claim
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so it stays citable regardless of future edits.
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app on **October 16, 2026**, citing
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[Retirement of the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps).
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Microsoft has repeatedly edited its published schedule, so this folder preserves the
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evidence behind the claim — each revision as it stood — so it stays citable regardless
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of future edits.
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- [Microsoft Whiteboard shutdown (original date).png](<Microsoft Whiteboard shutdown (original date).png>)
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the "Final migration and retirement schedule" table as originally published, with
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September 14, 2026 as its closing row: "The standalone Whiteboard apps for Windows,
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iOS, and Android retire. Whiteboard remains available through Microsoft Teams and the
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web."
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- [Archived copy of that revision](https://web.archive.org/web/20260818052606/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive)
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(Wayback Machine, August 18, 2026), where the September 14 date is clearly visible in
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the schedule table.
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## Timeline of Microsoft's published schedule
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As of August 23, 2026 the live page still carries the sentence "The standalone Windows,
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iOS, and Android apps retire on September 14, 2026", but only in passing under
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"Migration trigger and eligible tenants". The schedule table now opens with the migration
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deadlines instead, which Microsoft slipped by roughly a month (migration end
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August 22 → September 25; permanent deletion September 5 → October 16; service shutdown
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November 30 added) while the app retirement date held.
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**As originally published** (see
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[Microsoft Whiteboard shutdown (original date).png](<Microsoft Whiteboard shutdown (original date).png>)
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and the [Wayback snapshot of August 18, 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260818052606/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive)):
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migration ended August 22, remaining Azure boards were deleted September 5, and the
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standalone apps retired **September 14, 2026** — the closing row of the schedule table.
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When citing the retirement publicly:
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**Late August 2026:** the migration page slipped the migration deadlines by roughly a
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month (migration end August 22 → September 25; deletion September 5 → October 16;
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service shutdown November 30 added) while September 14 held, demoted to a passing
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sentence under "Migration trigger and eligible tenants".
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**August 28, 2026:** a dedicated retirement page appeared at the URL above, postponing
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the app retirement itself: "The standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS,
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and Android retire on **October 16, 2026**." It also states that after that date,
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"already-installed apps display a retirement experience instead of opening the
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Whiteboard gallery". October 16 is also the date remaining Azure-based boards are
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permanently deleted.
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## Citing the retirement publicly
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- Say the app **"retires"** — Microsoft's own verb. Do not claim the app *stops working*
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on September 14; installed copies may run for some time after.
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- Always scope the claim to the standalone **app**: Whiteboard itself remains available
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in Teams and on the web.
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- Quote the sentence verbatim, and prefer the archived copy or the bitmap over the live
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page, which can change again.
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- Say the app **"retires"** on October 16 — and, quoting Microsoft, that installed apps
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then display "a retirement experience instead of opening". Both are verbatim claims;
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do not paraphrase beyond them.
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- Quote with a screenshot, and prefer an archived copy or the bitmap over the live
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pages: the schedule changed three times in the ten days around our launch, and may
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change again. Snapshot each revision to the Wayback Machine when it changes.

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<h2>Beside Microsoft Whiteboard</h2>
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<p>Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive">retires its Whiteboard app on 14 September 2026</a>. SQLBI Whiteboard is built for the same room, a projector and a pen, and for a different file.</p>
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<p>Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retires its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>. SQLBI Whiteboard is built for the same room, a projector and a pen, and for a different file.</p>
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<tr><th></th><th>SQLBI Whiteboard</th><th>Microsoft Whiteboard</th></tr>

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tenth of the export. The PNGs beside it are for social cards, which
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<img class="launch" src="hero-launch.svg" width="1200" height="1000"
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alt="Microsoft is retiring its Whiteboard app on 14 September 2026. SQLBI Whiteboard, shown in its real window: a captured Power BI matrix with highlighter marks, a DAX measure, and red pen annotations.">
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<figcaption class="launch-caption">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive">retires its Whiteboard app on 14 September 2026</a>.<br>This is what we drew instead.</figcaption>
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alt="Microsoft is retiring its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026. SQLBI Whiteboard, shown in its real window: a captured Power BI matrix with highlighter marks, a DAX measure, and red pen annotations.">
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<figcaption class="launch-caption">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retires its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>.<br>This is what we drew instead.</figcaption>
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