so microsoft has something called microsoft fluid components and in today's video i wanted
to overview how they work and what it means for the future of microsoft before we begin today's
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it's in the link in the description it'd be great to have you over there so microsoft is obviously
putting a lot of time and attention into trying to leapfrog the market allowing them to become
the place for productivity in the future especially in the hybrid work environment
which basically means people working in the office and people working at home simultaneously now
fluid components are microsoft's next big attempt to try and get in control
of the wiki market with applications like notion and coda rising with abilities in there like sync
blocks interactive databases and better ways to build tools microsoft are finding it hard to try
and get in touch with that market so microsoft's solution is fluid fluid components are basically
live documents that you can access through any of the apps you're currently using so very
similar to how the real-time interactions work in a google document this will be previewable through
existing microsoft experiences so for example you can open up a live document inside of teams
without even leaving the chat window you could open up a live document in an outlook board
and be able to continue accessing it these are designed to be easy to open and easy to interact
with now fluid has been around for a little bit of time now it was actually first teased in the
2019 event that they had and it's been growing in popularity since with teams beginning to implement
it and more recently in their hybrid work update they actually announced that this will become a
feature inside of microsoft now in terms of the abilities you can create a fluid document from
any of the elements that you create in a piece of microsoft work so for example you create something
in onenote or inside of a spreadsheet or in another element you can bring that along with
you and allow other people to interact with it in real time this is perfect for for example creating
a spreadsheet or a tiny table that's inside of a document and still being able to interact with
it without having to open it up every single time now microsoft had demonstrated this not only with
things like spreadsheets and tables but things like meetings and meeting agendas that inside of
microsoft teams meetings on video and audio you can interact with allowing other people to take
notes and begin to interact with them in real time it's really also quite cool when it comes to the
outlook ability as well so for example when you're in outlook boards you can pin a live component
which allows you to start interacting with it and see other people interacting with it in real time
now it's really interesting to see this new edition because it really does take on the
likes of notion and coda in building this better sweet environment allowing you and your team
members to interact with it in a much more fluid fashion now it's really interesting because google
haven't quite captured this yet but this should have been google's move because google really
took control of the market with google docs and google sheets and google presentations as well
in allowing people to interact in real time however they really stunted their growth
when they didn't innovate with something like this microsoft was very stagnant and static
but fluid has really opened up the market for them to be the new leaders in the space
now although these features are more recently available in apps like notion with sync blocks
and obviously databases that already update with filters and things like that this new ability
inside of microsoft platforms can definitely help teams stay with the microsoft network more they
don't necessarily have to move out and it makes a lot more sense when it comes to collaborating
with others as well so what does the future hold for the fluid platform now as a technology it's
very smart and very intuitive being able to do stuff with less friction being able to open up
a separate link or open up a separate tab it is a small thing but it definitely changes the way that
you work now microsoft obviously haven't quite hit the nail on the head with the wiki experience but
they may have potentially leapfrogged the market with this in allowing people to interact with
certain elements this could not only be useful in a team context but in a personal context too
being able to bring out sections and elements that are particularly useful to start editing versus
actually interacting with the whole document so the future looks bright google are gonna have to
react to this folks like notion encoder are still gonna remain pretty useful but it definitely see
this market becoming very volatile in the future in competitors and access so folks that was
an overview of how microsoft fluid components work it'd be great to have your opinion on how
you think the market's gonna move i'd love to hear them in the comments below anyway folks
make sure to check out that skillshare link with our productivity classes but it's been
great to overview what microsoft fluid documents are and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
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