Microsoft has made another move to
augment its productivity services, with the acquisition of an Office
collaboration tool developer named LiveLoop for an undisclosed amount. The
San-Francisco based LiveLoop is best known for its collaboration tools for
Microsoft Office, allowing teams of people to work together on documents.
Its popular LiveLoop for PowerPoint
plugin converts presentations into a web URL that becomes a collaborative
document accessible by variety of devices without any additional software.
Microsoft is facing increased competition in the productivity space. Google,
Amazon, Apple and others are all pushing their own productivity suites and
Microsoft needs to continue innovating to compete.
Microsoft in the recent past has
been making several productivity themed acquisitions, such as Acompli email
client, and the Sunrise calendar app. More recently, Microsoft announced its
Office productivity suite will be free for devices with screen sizes smaller
than 10.1 inches. The company also announced a partnership with Adobe to help
build Windows 10’s new default browser ‘Spartan’.
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