InfoPath Retiring

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Office 2013 will be the last version of the Office suite to include InfoPath, according to a plan announced Jan. 2014 and updated Jan. 2015. The upshot: InfoPath forms will continue to be supported on-premises through 2023, the end of support for the client.

InfoPath is a client application for designing electronic forms, which can be filled out in the client or published to SharePoint to be filled out in a browser. The InfoPath 2013 client leaves Extended support with Office 2013 on Apr. 11, 2023. Office 2016, the next version of the desktop Office suite, will not include InfoPath when it ships, probably in the fourth quarter of 2015.

In contrast, SharePoint Server 2016, the next version of SharePoint for deployment on-premises, will include the Forms Services server-side components for publishing and hosting InfoPath forms. Organizations will be able to design new forms with InfoPath 2013 that work with SharePoint Server 2016, which is likely to ship in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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