I’ve had a few conversations with people recently about the future of Groove. As it’s now a Microsoft product it wasn’t clear what role was left for it to play. There seems to be a reasonable amount of duplication of function, but not in the way that the function was delivered.
Marc Olsen has started bloging about that very issue. Seems that the path of integration into the Office family is reasonable well established and proceeding. I’ve not seen anything on the packaging though; so not sure whether you’ll still need to purchase it separately or whether it will become part of Office Standard, Professional, etc.
Will make for some interesting team scenarios in customer environments which are Microsoft focussed. If Microsoft do choose to bundle Groove into one of the standard Office packages it will also make for interesting times in Lotus focussed enterprises.
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