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Microsoft launches Google Wave [techcrunch.com]

Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave [techcrunch.com], the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered [techcrunch.com] in 2010.

Maybe we should've seen this coming. Back in 2019, Microsoft announced [techcrunch.com] the Fluid Framework (not to be confused with the Fluent design system). The idea here was nothing short of trying to re-invent the nature of business documents and how developers build real-time applications. Last year, the company open-sourced Fluid [techcrunch.com] and started building it into a few of its own Office applications. Today, at its Ignite conference, it's launching a whole new product built on top of Fluid: Microsoft Wave Loop.

Loop is a new app — and concept — that takes the Fluid framework, which provides developers with flexible components to mix and match in order to create real-time editing-based applications, to create a new experience for users to collaborate on documents. In many ways, that was also the promise of Google Wave — real-time collaboration plus a developer framework and protocol to bring Wave everywhere.

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