Online multi-user tools like Google Docs may have changed the way we collaborate, but Microsoft’s new Fluid Framework aims to tear up the common interpretation
Online multi-user tools like Google Docs may have changed the way we collaborate, but Microsoft’s new Fluid Framework aims to tear up the common interpretation of a shared document. Announced at Build 2019 today, the new framework is web-based, and pulls apart traditional documents so as to recombine them in more modular ways.
It’s no small boast. “Fluid will break down the barriers of the traditional document as we know it and usher in the beginning of the free-flowing canvas,” Microsoft promises of its new technology.
Details are in short supply right now – you might say that the situation is, ahem, fluid – but what we do know sounds fairly appealing. It’s built around multi-person coauthoring on web and document content, blurring the lines between different types of file.
