Microsoft Loop Delivers Real-Time Collaboration, But Isn’t for Everyone

• Microsoft Loop enables real-time collaboration across Microsoft 365, keeping shared content synchronized across messages, meetings, and task boards.
• Loop works for rapidly changing and collaborative work like project coordination and action tracking, but it only delivers incremental gains.
• Adopting Loop changes how teams create and share information across apps, which may impact reporting requirements and Project Management Office processes.
• Loop doesn’t replace co-authoring in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and is not intended for formal document authoring.

Loop enables real-time collaboration (RTC) on content shared across Teams, Outlook, and Planner, reducing hand-offs, version confusion, and re-work for smaller, rapidly changing initiatives. However, time savings are modest. Loop is not for formal deliverables and doesn’t replace structured project management.

Included with M365 subscriptions, Loop is composed of flexible pages and modular components, such as task lists, tables, and text, that can be embedded and edited across several M365 services. Security and compliance features are still maturing so Loop requires evaluation before using regulated or sensitive data.