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I saw that in early 2024, Microsoft restricted the ability to sign up for a free 365 sandbox with E5 trial access. To this day in February 2025, it seems this service is still not available although I read somewhere on one of the developer blogs the free trial service should be restored with a new sign up process by late 2024, but that isn't the case. It currently says they are still piloting a new process...
Does anyone know why this trial service still isn't restored or if it is even coming back? Its frustrating as I've been trying to get into Power automate and other power platform products but don't want to potentially damage our live tenant which has over 1000 users. I also don't want to commit loads of money into Visual studio products which I likely won't use so having this service back would be very helpful
