NI LabVIEW Operating System Support Roadmap

This page provides users with advance notice of upcoming changes to the list of desktop operating systems supported by the LabVIEW development system. Please note that this page does not include operating system support information for LabVIEW modules and toolkit software. All plans are subject to change without notice.

For more information regarding support levels and timelines, visit the NI LabVIEW Life Cycle Policy.

Future Support Changes

As of August 2010, new LabVIEW releases will no longer support Windows 2000 or Mac OS X 10.4.

	2009	2009 SP1	2010	2010 SP1	2011	2011 SP1	2012	2012 SP1
Windows
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP (32-bit)
Windows Vista (32-bit)
Windows Vista (64-bit)¹
Windows 7 (32-bit)
Windows 7 (64-bit)
Windows 8 (32-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)
Windows RT
Windows Server 2003 (R2 (32-Bit))
Windows Server 2008 (R2 (64-Bit))
Mac OS X
10.4 "Tiger"
10.5 "Leopard"
10.6 "Snow Leopard"
10.7 "Lion"
10.8 "Mountain Lion"
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux
Mandrak/Mandriva Linux
Sun Solaris
SPARC 32-Bit

■ Full Support (includes all LabVIEW modules and toolkits as well as NI drivers)
■ Partial Support (LabVIEW supported but not all modules, toolkits and drivers)
■ No Support

¹ Prior to LabVIEW 2009, LabVIEW was only a 32-bit application that was compatible with Windows Vista x64 through Windows on Windows (WoW) 64. LabVIEW 2009 and later will provide both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the LabVIEW development environment.