Fluid is a
free and open source
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computer platform
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for
real-time collaboration across applications.
Microsoft
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first demonstrated the software at its Build conference in May 2019 as a framework that would allow for real-time collaboration between users of its
Office on the web
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. It replaces the concept of a "document" with a
cloud
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address for real-time collaboration and sharing of content forms including text and tables. Microsoft expects to implement it in its
Teams chat software,
Outlook
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Computing
* Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail and personal information management software product from Microsoft
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* Outlook on the web, a suite of web applications ...
mail software, and other productivity software. It is designed for integration with other services, such as live translation and
Cortana voice assistance. Public and private previews of the software began in November 2019. Microsoft
open sourced
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the software in September 2020.
See also
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Distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...
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Document collaboration
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