Microsoft InfoPath is a discontinued software application for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data.

According to Jean Paoli and John Godel, two of its developers, a key architectural design decision was "to adhere to the XML paradigm of separating the data in a document from the formatting.

"[3] A patent filed in 2000 by Adriana Neagu and Jean Paoli describes the technology as "authoring XML using DHTML views and XSLT.

InfoPath is used to create forms to capture information and save the contents as a file on a PC or on a web server when hosted on SharePoint.

InfoPath can be used to access and display data from divergent sources (web services, XML, databases, other forms) and have rich interactive behaviors based on Rules, Conditions and Actions.

[6] On January 31, 2014, Microsoft announced that InfoPath was discontinued and will be replaced by a more cross-platform solution called PowerApps, released in late 2016.

[8] Microsoft specifies that "InfoPath Forms Services is included in the on-premises release of SharePoint Server 2016, as well as being fully supported in Office 365 until further notice.

"[9] Microsoft MVP Roger Haueter[10] states that InfoPath is still expected to be supported in SharePoint Server 2019 On-Premises.

[15] Later in an undated update to the original post Microsoft changed the plan and announced that InfoPath Forms Services would be included in SharePoint 2016 after all.