Microsoft launches public preview for Loop to drive higher workforce collaboration

Microsoft has introduced a brand new app in public preview known as Loop which is designed to enhance collaboration and communication inside groups. Loop is an all-in-one platform that integrates chat, video calls, shared calendars, and process administration options. 

“At its core, Microsoft Loop is about folks—individuals who need to create along with ease, irrespective of the place they’re or what instruments they use. It’s a transformative co-creation expertise that brings collectively groups, content material, and duties throughout your instruments and units,” Wangui McKelvey, normal supervisor at Microsoft wrote in a weblog submit. 

The app is constructed to make it simpler for groups to collaborate on tasks and co-create content material in real-time. Customers can add a workspace title and every other related key phrases, and Microsoft Loop will recommend essentially the most related items so as to add to the workspace. New pages can simply be began with templates and drag-and-drop pages or blocks of content material.

When customers need to share items of data, they will flip any content material on a Loop web page right into a element and replica and paste it throughout Microsoft 365 apps together with Groups chat, Outlook, Whiteboard, and shortly to Phrase for the net. They will additionally share complete pages both as a hyperlink or a dwell web page. 

Loop additionally consists of options like AI-powered transcription and translation for seamless communication throughout totally different languages. Microsoft 365 Copilot – which was introduced final week – in Loop provides customers AI-powered strategies to assist remodel the best way you create and collaborate by guiding them with prompts like create, brainstorm, blueprint, and describe. Or just kind in a immediate, like “assist me create a mission assertion.”

The app is out there for Microsoft 365 subscribers and might be accessed by means of the Groups desktop and cell apps and an online browser. The app is ready to roll out to customers within the coming months.