Today, we are releasing Office Insider. Office insider allows you, the consumer, to get early access to the latest Office innovations. What is the Office Insider program? The Office Insider program is an ongoing preview program for consumer Office subscribers (Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University) that gives you first access to the latest Office features and experiences – putting you on the inside track for all things Office. How can I become an Office Insider? PC for home use: If you are an Office 365 Home subscriber and want to be an Office Insider, visit the Additional Install Options page of My Account and choose an Insider option from the Version drop down menu. Click Install. PC for business use: If you have an Office 365 business or enterprise plan, you can join First Release . Android users can join the Office Insider for Android community and then select the app you want to test: Word | PowerPoint | Excel . If you have Office Mobile you can join the Windows Insider program . For more information, check out our blog at: https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider

Thanks - I'm aware of that. However, I'm trying to reconcile these two statements: 1. Nicholas_W_ in the first post in this thread : How can I become an Office Insider? PC for business use: If you have an Office 365 business or enterprise plan, you can join First Release . Anneliese_Wirth's post on 22 November : To check that you're enrolled, go to File > Office Account, and look at the version number under Office Updates. If you see 16.0.6228.1010, you are good. That alone confirms you're on an Insider build. :-) Having done (1) and followed the tortuous instructions in the article you referred to, I follow (2) and see that I'm not enrolled. So, what have I misunderstood? Or where am I going wrong?

First release for businesses is different... see: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-release-options-3B3ADFA4-1777-4FF0-B606-FB8732101F47

If you see 16.0.6228.1010, you are good. That alone confirms you're on an Insider build. :-) Do I understand correctly that this only applies to O365 Home, Personal and University users? I have a business subscription (E3) and even several days after enrolling for First Release, I can't find a way to get beyond 16.0.6001.1038. This doesn't make me much of an Insider, and probably explains why I haven't got the badge ...

Hi Steve, Office Insider is only available through the Additional Install Options page from the My Account page as mentioned by Nicholas_W_ in his initial post started on November 13, 2015. It’s not available through any full installer as you have mentioned. Also to let you know that the installation is available only as a click to run which has nothing to do with the version of Windows installed. In case you have any further queries please do get back to us. Thank you.

Office Insider program for Office 365, Android and Office Mobile now available.

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Today, we are releasing Office Insider. Office insider allows you, the consumer, to get early access to the latest Office innovations.

What is the Office Insider program?

The Office Insider program is an ongoing preview program for consumer Office subscribers (Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University) that gives you first access to the latest Office features and experiences – putting you on the inside track for all things Office.

How can I become an Office Insider?

PC for home use: If you are an Office 365 Home subscriber and want to be an Office Insider, visit the Additional Install Options page of My Account and choose an Insider option from the Version drop down menu. Click Install.
PC for business use: If you have an Office 365 business or enterprise plan, you can join First Release.
Android users can join the Office Insider for Android community and then select the app you want to test: Word| PowerPoint| Excel.
If you have Office Mobile you can join the Windows Insider program.

For more information, check out our blog at:

https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider

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2015-11-26T16:50:14+00:00
Thanks - I'm aware of that. However, I'm trying to reconcile these two statements:

1. Nicholas_W_ in the first post in this thread:
How can I become an Office Insider?

PC for business use: If you have an Office 365 business or enterprise plan, you can join First Release.
1. Anneliese_Wirth's post on 22 November:
To check that you're enrolled, go to File > Office Account, and look at the version number under Office Updates. If you see 16.0.6228.1010, you are good. That alone confirms you're on an Insider build. :-)

Having done (1) and followed the tortuous instructions in the article you referred to, I follow (2) and see that I'm not enrolled. So, what have I misunderstood? Or where am I going wrong?
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2015-11-26T16:18:31+00:00

First release for businesses is different... see:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-release-options-3B3ADFA4-1777-4FF0-B606-FB8732101F47
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2015-11-24T14:02:41+00:00

If you see 16.0.6228.1010, you are good. That alone confirms you're on an Insider build. :-)

Do I understand correctly that this only applies to O365 Home, Personal and University users? I have a business subscription (E3) and even several days after enrolling for First Release, I can't find a way to get beyond 16.0.6001.1038. This doesn't make me much of an Insider, and probably explains why I haven't got the badge ...
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2015-11-23T19:03:39+00:00

Hi Steve,

Office Insider is only available through the Additional Install Options page from the My Account page as mentioned by Nicholas_W_ in his initial post started on November 13, 2015. It’s not available through any full installer as you have mentioned.

Also to let you know that the installation is available only as a click to run which has nothing to do with the version of Windows installed.

In case you have any further queries please do get back to us.

Thank you.
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