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Using the Loop App

Tony Redmond — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released the preview version of the Loop app on March 22. The app works well for collaboration with people from the same Microsoft 365 tenant but fails utterly once external people are involved. Some other teething problems are evident, but there's enough in the Loop app for people to make their minds up if this will make collaboration smarter within their organization.

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Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Loop Might Crash Due to User Habits

Tony Redmond — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:31:31 +0000

Office 365 tenants are now getting to use Loop components in Teams chat. Some are very excited at the new technology; others are less so. It all depends on how you use current composition tools and how easily work habits can embrace ever-changing Loops. In this article, we look at some of the challenges facing user acceptance of dynamic composition as seen in Loops.

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Loop, Mesh, Connect IQ, and Lots of Teams Dominate Office at Microsoft Ignite 2021

Tony Redmond — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:02:54 +0000

The Office news at Microsoft's Fall Ignite event was dominated by Teams and technology associated with Teams. A new Microsoft 365 app called Loop will be available in 2022 and we'll have the chance to use Connect IQ to make our messages even more intelligent than they are now. And if you really get funky, you can join a Teams mesh meetings in a virtual environment. But the bad news is that Teams Shared Channels are delayed until preview in early 2022.

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