March 10, 2005

microsoft and groove

It’s about time:  Microsoft’s buying Groove.  I was a heavy Groove user in a past life, and always found the disconnect between the Groove client and my desktop; their core technology (for transparently creating secure, peer-to-peer virtual workgroups) belongs in the operating system.  It will be interesting to see if Groove tech ends up there, or simply becomes a bolt-on to Sharepoint…