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Your Office Insider Satisfaction?
1) I have no idea why Bob expected lambdas on Current Preview in January. Now they are announced for that channel, hope will be soon.
2) Form working with other people point of view actually I see no difference between Current Preview and Beta. Both are not compatible with others if use new functionality, both are stable enough. I don't remember that in latest years Beta didn't work at all. Newly introduced functionality could be buggy, or its behaviour could be changed with another build. But if you use only old fashion functions there is no difference between Beta and self-annual.
3) As PeterBartholomew1 mentioned you may shift from one channel to another at any time. Just initiate another channel installation by one of available methods, take coffee break and you are here. All your data and setting will be kept with switching from one channel to another.
4) In general, forget about buggy Vista time. Now things are more smooth, even Win11 Dev channel works good enough. And, that is more important, shifting back on stable channels is much easier these days.
5) I can't say that will be no issues at all, but based on my experience years ago and now, we have much less of them and it's easier to resolve if happens.
I have moved to the beta channel, but then I do not currently have anything significant running in the way of client work. For me the challenge is to understand how Excel has changed from being spreadsheet software to something entirely different. It is no longer a matter of new features which provide bells and whistles; the solutions I develop now are often not recognised as being spreadsheet formulas at all, since they do not rely upon the concept of relative referencing or expose individual cell references.
So, given this rather different motivation, what is is my experience of Beta versions of Excel? I have had occasional Excel crashes which I have reported with a frown but not anywhere close to creating past levels of paranoia where development was frequently interlaced with defensive saves. The recovery process normally leaves me in reasonably good shape. I am a bit wary of combining third-party add-ins with the beta release software. In the main, I am happy using insider versions but I would not commit major elements of commercial work to their mercy without a backup plan.