# Anthropic adds workplace apps to challenge Google and Microsoft

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/anthropic-takes-on-google-and-microsoft-with-claude-sheets/
- Published: 2026-11-10T17:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T18:07:44+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2312177/anthropic-takes-on-google-and-microsoft-with-claude-sheets/
- Topics: AI, Business, Companies, Software, Technology

## Key points

- Anthropic launched Claude Sheets, Meetings and Whiteboards.
- Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta for paid users.
- Claude is also expanding workplace data and app integrations.

## Summary

Anthropic has expanded Claude’s productivity tools with spreadsheet, meeting and brainstorming apps, putting it in more direct competition with Google and Microsoft. The launches extend Claude from a chatbot into collaborative workplace software that can create and organise work with colleagues.

Claude Sheets can generate and edit spreadsheets with tabs, formulas and formatting, and files can be exported to Excel; it is in beta for Claude subscribers on web, desktop and mobile. Claude Meetings can take notes in Google Meet and help users review plans and actions, but is initially limited to Team and Enterprise customers. Whiteboards groups ideas and drafts action items, while the renamed Claude Data connects to company CRM systems; Anthropic is also beginning to let Claude interact with full apps from selected partners.

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