Horizon Apps Standard and Advanced Term cannot renew on the August 2026 pricebook

What changed

Omnissa has published KB 6001279, “Omnissa Horizon portfolio simplification – starting August 2026”. From the August 2026 pricebooks, several editions go end of sale — no new purchases, and no renewals.

The editions named in the article include:

• Horizon Apps Standard Subscription (SaaS)
• Horizon Apps Standard Term
• Horizon Advanced Term
• Horizon for Linux Term
• 1-year SNS for Dynamic Environment Manager, ThinApp and App Volumes

The FAQ is blunt about timing. End of sale happens in August 2026, “at which time the editions above will become unavailable to purchase or renew”.

The renewal path is a step up

Omnissa’s recommended replacements keep your current functionality by moving you to a larger edition:

• Horizon Apps Standard Term → Horizon Apps Advanced Term
• Horizon Apps Standard Subscription → Horizon Apps Universal Subscription
• Horizon Advanced Term → Horizon Enterprise Term
• Horizon for Linux Term → Horizon Enterprise Term

Those are Omnissa’s own mappings. The article also notes that you can mix editions and should talk to your representative about the best fit for your use cases. What the mapping does not ask is whether these users need Horizon at all.

Who feels this first

Not the teams running large persistent desktop estates. It lands hardest on teams who bought Horizon Apps — or used a Term edition mainly as an application farm — so people could run SAP GUI, ERP, warehouse, manufacturing or finance software.

Those users never asked for a virtual desktop. They needed a published Windows application that opened reliably. For them, the Horizon Client, Connection Server and image pipeline exist to do one job, and a higher edition buys desktop capability they were never going to use.

Check this before you sign

• Which of your editions appear in KB 6001279, and when your renewal date falls.
• How many of those users open a published application rather than a full desktop.
• What the recommended replacement edition adds, and whether you need it.

Evaluate browser delivery first

WebStream ACP targets the Horizon deployments that exist only to deliver Windows applications. Users sign in through a standard HTML5 browser, so there is no Horizon Client to install or keep in version lockstep, and file, clipboard and print activity stays under policy with a full audit trail.

Keep Horizon for the people who genuinely need a full virtual desktop. Move the SAP, ERP and finance set to governed browser delivery, and the application farm stops driving the next edition. Paid tiers bill SessionHours of active use, and you can prove the experience on your own hosts through AWS Marketplace or the MSI.

The VMware Horizon alternative page has the full architectural comparison.