

The idea is that by adding meeting notes to calendar invitations in Outlook or Teams, users will be able to start collaborating with other participants ahead of the start of a meeting and following its ending, as well.Įarlier this year, Microsoft officials showed how Fluid components could supplement Microsoft Whiteboard and make the collaboration process even richer. They'll be rebranded as Loop components as part of the coming meeting-notes options in Outlook, Teams, and OneNote, officials said. Previously announced Fluid Framework components, including agenda, notes, and task lists, will be available soon. Officials said these two new components will be available within Teams chats for Microsoft 365 customers starting this month. One is a voting table for teams another is a status tracker for gathering team information, tracking the progress of projects, and providing the latest status of a project. Loop workspaces are shared spaces where teams can keep track of all the aspects of a project and where individuals can collaborate asynchronously or synchronously.Īt Ignite this week, Microsoft is adding a couple of additional Loop components. Loop pages are "flexible canvases" in Microsoft's words, where users can organize project components like files, links, and data. Information stored in a Loop component will automatically and rapidly sync, so users will always have access to the latest, regardless of where the component is located. Loop components are the renamed and updated Fluid components - tables, notes, tasks, or even a customer-sales record in Dynamics 365 - that can be embedded in chats, emails, meetings, documents, or pages. Microsoft is not ready to talk about licensing/pricing for the standalone Loop app, but the spokesperson added that it will have more to share in 2022 when it rolls out. Over time, Loop components will appear in Teams, OneDrive,, and the Office mobile apps. These Loop components will be built into other Microsoft apps like Outlook, Teams, OneNote, and/or Whiteboard.Īs Loop components roll out starting in November 2021, they will be built into existing Office apps across Microsoft 365 commercial licenses, a company spokesperson said. But unlike the Notion app, Loop can be used both as a standalone app/canvas, as well as inside other apps in the form of embeddable components a Microsoft spokesperson told me when I asked about the similarities.
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Loop the app looks and works a lot like the Notion project-management/collaboration tool in that it provides a canvas with portable components that can stay in sync across apps while users create as a team. Loop builds on top of and extends Microsoft's vision for its Fluid Framework, which the company introduced in 2019 as a way to provide fast coauthoring and compound documents that included elements synced in near-real-time.
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But there's more than one way to collaborate, and, as of this week, another Microsoft collaboration app is in the mix.Īt its Ignite IT Pro conference this week, Microsoft is rebranding many (but not all) of its Fluid technologies as "Loop" and debuting a new standalone productivity app called Microsoft Loop. Microsoft's collaboration strategy for the past few years has largely revolved around Teams. Microsoft to extend its 'enterprise metaverse' strategy with Mesh for Teams.Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services.Edge browser for Linux is now available for all users.Meet Loop, a new collaboration tool built on Fluid Framework.Power Apps gets pay-as-you-go licensing Dynamics 365 gets more new modules.Microsoft is adding more AI smarts and other new tools to Office.Cloud-connected on-prem database: SQL Server 2022 rolls out in private preview.
