[ChrisArchitect]

Shouts to all in here that think they were the only ones who liked Wave. I tire of the forgetful historians in here or just rehashing the old news/its place in the history of the time.

Sure this is wave. Sure this is notion.(which isn't the grandiose lightbulk product fans of it seem to think it is, not to mention its significance way overblown... you think Microsoft cares what hipster-designer/dev doc collab party you're in?)

The collaboration on any kind of docs/work is just natural and expected progression now. Anyone else just find this not that exciting?

[ChrisArchitect]

furthermore, all these kinds of productivity tool 'advancements' and evolutions come down to people. Wave didn't fly because people didn't get it or wouldn't adapt. Sure, there were some really great parts of it and so they were extracted and moved into other apps where people could warm up to them and see some advantages.

But it's people. And it's tools. And it takes time for them to adapt and grow and old habits die hard.

Microsoft has taken 10 years to get to the point where its userbase may be ready for realtime collab apps that bring together multiple types of docs. We're talking about a userbase, and an age, where there is still tons of doc emailing and filename-ver-2-Copy.doc going on. Yes, lots of us have moved on from that thanks to perhaps more niche openness to new editing and sharing methods, Notion-heads, Figma jams, etc. But MS is just getting there now and who knows if customers will even end up using it since they've got other ways to collab in and out of the ecosystem on different scales.

But again, meh -- not that exciting. Just tools.