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When will Microsoft Forms be finalized
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 https://practical365.com/blog/microsoft-forms-arrives-commercial-office-365-tenants/, noted as a preview. Microsoft is expanding Forms availability, therefore I don't think they are going to scrap it anytime soon.
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.
- Cian, you got it! We're moving beyond First Release Entire Organization now, into the rest of production. ALL licensed users can access https://forms.office.com now, and we'll roll out the app launcher tile gradually.
And indeed, you can configure access to Forms via user licenses, as you've been able to do since mid-June. We will not change any configuration you've made previously as we roll out.
