Microsoft Loop
{{Short description|Collaboration software}}
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Microsoft Loop is an online collaborative workspace developed by Microsoft that offers a variety of features to help users gather, organize, and build notes, ideas, and projects.
History
Loop was officially announced on 2 November 2021 as an addition to Microsoft 365 suite of apps.{{Cite web|last=Novet|first=Jordan|date=2021-11-02|title=Microsoft launches Loop, an Office app for helping workers stay on top of projects|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/02/microsoft-launches-loop-office-app-for-real-time-collaboration.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=CNBC}}
Functions
According to The Verge, Loop provides "blocks of collaborative text or content that can live independently and be copied, pasted, and shared freely."{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Tom |title=Microsoft's new Copilot will change Office documents forever |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/17/23644501/microsoft-copilot-ai-office-documents-microsoft-365-report |access-date=23 March 2023 |work=The Verge |date=17 March 2023}}
Microsoft Loop comes with templates for meetings, project planning, and personal tasks, and offers integration with other Microsoft and third-party tools and services.{{Cite web|last=Warren|first=Tom|date=2021-11-02|title=Microsoft Loop is a new Office app for the hybrid work era|url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22758951/microsoft-loop-fluid-components-office-collaboration-app|access-date=2021-11-02|website=The Verge}} It supports a maximum of 50 users editing a workspace simultaneously.{{cite web|url=https://www-smartworld-it.translate.goog/news/loop-microsoft-anti-notion.html/amp?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=wapp|language=it|title=Loop is Microsoft's futuristic anti-Notion to try now!|date=March 23, 2023}}
Similar to Notion, it includes workspaces and pages where users can import and organize tasks, projects, and documents.
However, it also uses shareable components that allow content from Loop to be turned into a real-time block of content that can be pasted into Teams, Outlook, Word and Whiteboard. It also features the ability to use Microsoft Copilot.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-22 |title=Reinventing collaboration with AI in Microsoft Loop |url=https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/reinventing-collaboration-with-ai-in-microsoft-loop/ba-p/3769004 |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
{{Microsoft Office}}
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