Microsoftbezza_uk Unfortunately, I doubt this will be available in the consumer version of Microsoft 365 anytime soon.
Lists, as currently implemented, relies on SharePoint*, which is not currently part of the consumer M365 experience (nor would it make much sense for Sharepoint to be included in that offering).
- Perhaps once the Lists interface is more mature, a ‘background-only’ instance of SharePoint (or maybe using CDS or Azure SQL as a data store) might be able to be added to the consumer version (meaning they wouldn’t ever see ‘SharePoint’ directly).
- Perhaps if (years in the future) Lists is migrated to MS Graph / Substrate it could be added as a feature to the consumer Microsoft 365. [Right now, it seems Lists are likely just a table in the SQL server backend running SharePoint, similar to how file metadata is stored.]
- I haven’t tested this, but individuals _may_ have access to Lists within Teams, under the ‘Teams for Life’ service and stored in a CDS store (or somesuch).
My takeaway: if you’re a personal M365 user with no access a corp/non-profit/education tenant, you’d be better off looking at other solutions for the foreseeable future. 😔
[This is all purely conjecture - I am not a Microsoft employee and have no inside information about any of this.]
* SharePoint has a long history, and was not originally intended as a ‘cloud’ (SAAS) product. I believe many orgs still use it on local (customer-owned) servers. Together, this makes it very hard to replace it with a pure cloud SAAS (that would make things like ‘adding Lists to consumer Microsoft 365’ much easier) without breaking all of those other users (on-premises, air-gapped networks or private clouds, etc.) or creating a new SAAS to be maintained in near perpetuity with the legacy product.
