Microsoft Loop is available to (almost) everyone in preview. An opportunity to discover a new vision of collaboration according to the American giant.
It’s taken two years, but Microsoft is finally ready to let everyone test its new vision for collaboration. The American giant is offering its Loop app in preview for web, Android, and iOS. As shown in 2021, this app allows users to work on projects with components that update in real time and can easily integrate with Microsoft 365 apps like Word and Outlook. For example, you can place a table in a Word document that will update as soon as the collaborator changes it.
Microsoft Loop is available to (almost) everyone in preview
Loop also lets you assign tasks (synced with Planner and To Do), comment, respond, share project pages, and track progress. You can add a photo to your smartphone if something inspires you and you are away from the computer.
As you can imagine, Microsoft has, of course, integrated artificial intelligence into Loop. Microsoft 365 Copilot offers AI-driven recommendations to help you get things done. You can ask Copilot to help you create a mission report or summarize the content of a working paper.
An opportunity to discover a new vision of collaboration according to the American giant
You need a business account to try out the mobile apps now, but anyone can use Loop online. Personal accounts on mobile devices should be coming “soon”according to Microsoft. And if Copilot is currently limited to a private test, it should be available in the coming months too.
For the American giant, this is an attempt to unify and sync all of its efforts around collaboration in an age where emojis are extremely widespread and where people primarily use Asana for task tracking and Slack for messaging. The big challenge for Microsoft will be to convince people to use this approach. It certainly won’t help loyal followers of Google’s productivity toolkit, but Microsoft will also have to do everything to convince them that Loop can replace all the collaboration apps they already use. To be continued!