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.
