Microsoft Fluid is a new framework in Office that enhances collaboration between teams, document sharing, and task distribution. This powerful tool is based on blocks of different components such as tables, graphs, or dynamic lists that can be edited by several users in real-time.
The platform is an Open Source project that can be used in any web application, which also enables you to edit in third-party applications, keeping the information updated and ready to use anywhere.
This solution is one step closer to the concept of collaborative work in the Cloud, where Fluid allows you to select modules from any program (Excel, PowerPoint...) and integrate them into the application you are using at that moment. The elements from a presentation, a table, or a text with a predetermined format will be perfectly integrated into the same space or document. Moreover, we can also share these modules with other users so that they can work on them at the same time.
We can also grab a table from a chat and drag it inside of an email, a whiteboard, or any Microsoft 365 application. This will still be a block that we can move or relocate. Microsoft Teams meeting will not be even more integrated and collaborative, as we're going to be able to see notes in meetings or in the calendar in real-time thanks to the immediate synchronization with the rest of the applications. Therefore, Microsoft Fluid Office is the biggest leap towards collaborative work that the company has been announcing for a long time.