The move to Groove: Microsoft cooking up major collaboration plan
A year after buying Groove Networks and its peer-to-peer technology, Microsoft has begun laying out plans to develop the software into the offline client it has been missing in its document collaboration story.
Sounds like a fork in the road to me.
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A lot more will become clear in the coming months Richard. This “fork” does have a good place in Microsoft’s overall strategy on collaboration.
So what’s good for the goose is not good for the gander? If a major PR talking point for MS is the supposed fork in the road of Lotus’ collaboration platform, how can the same thing not be a probem for MS? That is even too hypocritical for MS.
Sean—
Sean,
The fork in the road is not so much a major PR talking point for Microsoft. Type in “Lotus Notes”in the gartner.com search page as read the first 20 or so reports headlines …
I do think this is an entirely different architecture discussion compared to Microsoft’s acquisition of Groove and how this will be integrated in the IW portfolio