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Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad ñ specifically Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Microsoft unveiled HoloLens at its Redmond headquarters on 21 January 2015, a wireless see-through headset that overlays holograms on the real world and runs Windows 10.

Microsoft began shipping the HoloLens Development Edition on 30 March 2016 at a list price of US$3,000, first to approved developers in the United States and Canada.

At its 26 October 2016 Windows 10 event Microsoft announced the Creators Update and partners (HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, ASUS) building mixed reality headsets starting at US$299.

Microsoft announced on 3 October 2017 that it had acquired AltspaceVR, the social virtual reality platform that had shut down in the summer, to build a mixed reality community.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and the first Windows Mixed Reality headsets from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Acer launched on 17 October 2017 from US$299.

The US Army awarded Microsoft a potential US$479.1 million other transaction agreement to prototype HoloLens-based augmented reality headsets, the start of the IVAS program.

On 22 February 2019 a group of Microsoft employees publicly called on Satya Nadella and Brad Smith to cancel the HoloLens IVAS contract with the US Army, saying they would not become "war profiteers".

Microsoft began shipping HoloLens 2 on 7 November 2019 in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, to select enterprise customers first.

Microsoft announced Mesh on 2 March 2021 at Ignite, a cloud platform for shared holographic collaboration across HoloLens, VR headsets, phones and PCs.

Microsoft said on 31 March 2021 that the US Army had awarded it a production agreement worth up to US$21.88 billion over 10 years for more than 120,000 customised HoloLens headsets.

Microsoft switched off the social VR platform AltspaceVR on 10 March 2023, announced on 20 January amid layoffs that also disbanded the HoloLens Mixed Reality Toolkit team.

On 21 December 2023 Microsoft listed Windows Mixed Reality as deprecated, saying it would be removed from Windows 11 version 24H2 and ending its first-party VR headset platform.

Microsoft told partners in late September 2024 that HoloLens 2 was discontinued, with a last-time buy and security updates only through 31 December 2027.

Microsoft ended support for the first-generation HoloLens on 10 December 2024 with a final servicing update, saying devices would keep working but get no more security updates.

Microsoft's fiscal 2025 proxy lists five executives' pay from $11.9M to $96.5M for CEO Satya Nadella, a 480-to-1 CEO pay ratio, and 91.94% shareholder approval of executive pay.

Microsoft retired its Mesh mixed reality collaboration platform on 1 December 2025, moving immersive meetings into Teams after announcing the end of the standalone app in July.

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows Mixed Reality for consumers on 1 November 2026, ending downloads of the Mixed Reality Portal and WMR for SteamVR and all updates.

Microsoft will retire its Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Guides mixed reality apps for HoloLens on 31 December 2026; renewals closed on 1 November 2025.

Microsoft's consumer Extended Security Updates programme for Windows 10 22H2 delivers its last security patches. A home Windows 10 PC keeps working after this date but gets no more security fixes, and 12 October 2027 is also the last day anyone can enrol.