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When will Microsoft Forms be finalized
Hi All, I was wondering if a microsoft employee could provide some color around when Forms will have a final version release? Also has there been an instance where something was put out in "relea...
Although in the IT world one can never be sure, Microsoft has a current focus of Cloud first, mobile first. All their efforts are focussed in this direction. All of their products which conform to this, I believe, are relatively safe for the long term, especially where there is no duplication or large overlap with another offering. Although there may be overlap between Forms and other offerings, Forms is the newer and more actively developed offering.
Microsoft has put a significant amount of effort into Forms. It has been around for a while now, but until recently, was only available to education tenants. Since around June 15, 2017 Forms is now also available to business tenants, noted as a preview. Microsoft is expanding Forms availability, therefore I don't think they are going to scrap it anytime soon.
Agreed @darell this kind of behavior is most unpleasant and strange!
John Liu helped me discover the issue. If your tenant uses First Release for a select group rather than for the whole organisation, Forms Preview will be unavailable. I had turned on First Release for a select group to hurry the SharePoint Communications site rollout. This "turned off" the Forms Preview that was working in my tenant.
- Yes you figured it out, sorry about the confusion, we've only launched to "first release entire organization" tenancies.
Has this changed already? My org is signed up to see applications in preview, but we don't have anyone in First Release and we just found access to Microsoft Forms today.
There was an announcement a couple of hours a go "we're rolling out Microsoft Forms Public Preview to our Office 365 commercial subscribers. Today, all commercial customers can visit http://forms.office.com to create surveys, polls or quizzes." It also mentions the Forms tile is rolling out gradually and will take some time to appear in all commercial tenants.
So that probably explains why you are seeing this now! I assume this means the rollout is progressing, not just for first release customers. It can be disabled as needed via licence assignment or removal in that case.
