Introducing Microsoft Loop

Loop allows users to create components that update in real-time across multiple apps

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Published: November 2, 2021

Tom Wright

Managing Editor

Microsoft has launched what it referred to as “the next big breakthrough in Microsoft 365”: Microsoft Loop.

Revealed at Ignite, Loop is built around a digital canvas and components that span Office app portfolio, and is designed to enable project collaboration in the era of hybrid working.

It is split into three elements:

  • Loop components are interactive widgets – such as notes, tables and graphs – that can be created and shared within chats, meetings and emails, and update in real-time for all users across multiple applications
  • Loop pages are canvases that will store multiple components and other relevant media such as links and images
  • Loop workspaces are hubs for components, pages and everything else associated to a particular project

The overarching concept is that documents can be broken apart into smaller, living pieces that can exist across Microsoft’s whole software portfolio.

A user could, for example, create a note (in the form of a Loop component) in Microsoft Teams that can be shared via Outlook and stored on a Loop page. The component will update everywhere it has been shared in real-time.

Loop is an extension and rebranding of Microsoft’s Fluid initiative, which it launched in 2019. Teams related updates were revealed earlier this year at Build.

Microsoft said that Loop will start rolling out later this year, with details of a Loop app “coming soon”.

 

 

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