Official line
InfoPath retired; customers directed to Power Apps and Lists.
Microsoft · Productivity · Product
InfoPath
Discontinued
2003–2015 · 12 years in market
Launched
Jan 1, 2003
Discontinued
Jan 1, 2015
Cause of death
Replaced by successor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Enterprise form designer. Power users loved it; Microsoft wanted Power Apps.
Why it died
Editorial reading
A 2003 XML tool in a 2015 cloud story. Migration was the entire second half of its life.
Founder takeaway
Line-of-business tools need a decade-long successor path, not a blog post.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Microsoft
Power Apps
The designated forms heir.
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