The first platform to benefit from Context IQ is going to be Microsoft Editor, the company’s spellchecking and proofreading tool.
This is an artificial intelligence service that can surface relevant suggestions and information that can be useful at any given time. Both pages and workspaces can be collaborated on by multiple users at the same time.Īnother new Microsoft Office experience announced at Ignite is Context IQ. Loop workspaces are more like notebooks, where you can organize pages in different groups and sections to make everything easier to find, which is particularly useful for large projects. Loop pages and Loop workspaces are more focused on organizing information, Loop pages let you bring together all the information related to a project in a way that’s constantly up-to-date since all the components are updated live wherever you share them. There’s also a new Loop component for Dynamics 365 records, so you can see up-to-date information about customers across different apps. Another one is a status tracker, where tasks can be assigned to different users and their progress can be updated over time. First, there’s a new voting table component (seen above), where you can list different options along with their pros and cons and users can vote on their preferred choice. Microsoft is also introducing a few brand-new Loop components today.
If you share a Loop table in Microsoft Teams, you can make changes right there, and they’ll reflect in every page or location where that table is. A Loop component can be a table, a to-do list, and so on, and wherever that component is available, it’s updated in real-time with the latest information. Essentially, they’re bits of information you can iterate on and that work across the entire Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Loop components are the new Fluid components, and Microsoft describes them as “atomic units of productivity”. Microsoft Loop encompasses three big elements: Loop components, Loop pages, and Loop workspaces. We’ve seen Fluid components come to Teams and other apps, but Microsoft is fully realizing their potential now. The big new app is called Microsoft Loop, and if you remember Microsoft’s Fluid framework and components, this is the next evolution of that. Among the Ignite news, Microsoft Office is getting a big new app and new features for existing apps. With Microsoft’s Ignite virtual event kicking off today, the floodgates have opened for news coming out of the event.