What software is being sunset, deprecated, or reaching end-of-life in February 2027?

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3 things are scheduled to be sunset, deprecated, or shut down in February 2027, from 3 vendors, each sourced from the vendor’s own announcement. Soonest first: Center for Open Science — OSF phases out its Projects workspace (storage & collaboration) (19 Feb 2027); Microsoft — Azure Deployment Environments will be retired on 22 February 2027 — plan a replacement for self-service environment provisioning (22 Feb 2027); OpenAI — OpenAI deprecates whisper-1 and its gpt-4o-transcribe speech-to-text models (26 Feb 2027). The full, continuously updated list with live countdowns is at https://lastcall.dev/calendar/2027-02.

What’s shutting down in February 2027

Center for Open Science The Center for Open Science winds down the OSF Projects workflow — collaboration, file management, and storage — locking new project creation from 16 November 2026 and making all projects read-only after 19 February 2027; preregistration and preprints continue

Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments (ADE), the service for on-demand, template-based environment provisioning and developer self-service, will be retired on 22 February 2027; the closing-down process begins 14 September 2026 and Microsoft names no drop-in successor

OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated its older speech-to-text API models — whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize — and will remove them from the API on 26 February 2027

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