the first laptop I bought with my own money after college back in 2010-2011. Needed one for work, so I "splurged" on a $600 ASUS laptop. The battery tanked around the time the 1-year limited warranty expired, so I had to keep it plugged in for nearly the entire time I had it. It was slow as hell (no SSD) and weighed a ton. That POS met its fate to an e-waste recycler around 2014.
Another regret is my first Apple computer. A 2014 Mac Mini that replaced that Asus laptop. 8GB of ram and the slowest "hybrid" HDD drive. I hated using it so much until I figured out how to boot it off of an external SSD. Then I started to understand why people like MacOS.
It's really cool that you got to work on this from the early inception. I've had my eye on this since it was hinted at many Ingnites ago.
I've never seen an app that can do live collaboration on a document as seamlessly as Loop. Between my phone, laptop and computer, the changes are seemingly instantaneous and that has to be a major accomplishment.
Asides from the web app being a Notion clone, the actual loop components are the most interesting user-facing tool I've seen Microsoft release in a very long time. I've been piloting Loop by myself for over a year and have been introducing it to my team over the past few months.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops over the next few years. I'm really interested in how 3rd party developers can leverage it.
Loop components have been available in Teams and Outlook for nearly a year. Today's announcement is mostly about letting users access the proper web app.
Another regret is my first Apple computer. A 2014 Mac Mini that replaced that Asus laptop. 8GB of ram and the slowest "hybrid" HDD drive. I hated using it so much until I figured out how to boot it off of an external SSD. Then I started to understand why people like MacOS.