[THIN] Re: Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:34:41 -0700

Hmm. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio?  You mean products that
Microsoft has purchased and enhanced?  And even DOS was a purchased/stolen
copy of QDOS. This doesn't sound original to me.

 

Joe

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Nick Smith
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 7:07 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO

 

Well ages ago the Office Suite, which is probably what secured their
dominance (DOS gave them a shot at it; didn't secure it).

 

Nick

 

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From: Matthew Shrewsbury [mailto:MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 14 March 2005 13:28
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO

 

I was thinking about it over the weekend and I can't think of anything
original Microsoft has done (Bob might be the exception). Maybe what
Microsoft brings that is different is support and mass marketing.

 

Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+

Network Administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 12:11 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO

 

If you can't crush them, buy them.  Has Microsoft done something original in
the last few years that has been successful?  (No, BOB was a failure)

 

Joe

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Kenzig Kenzig.com
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:37 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO

 

Sounds like they are going to enhance TS a bit maybe with this one?
JK  

 

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Microsoft Acquires Groove, Gets New CTO
   In a somewhat unsurprising move, given the tight relationship
between the two companies, Microsoft announced yesterday that it will
acquire Groove Networks, a leading provider of ad-hoc workgroup
collaboration software. In addition, Groove Founder Ray Ozzie will
become a Microsoft chief technology officer (CTO); Norman Judah and
David Vaskevitch will also retain their CTO titles. Previously, Ozzie
created a little program you might have heard of called Lotus Notes.
   "The acquisition of Groove complements Microsoft's collaboration
offerings to include real-time, server-based, and peer-to-peer
solutions that address the ever-changing and more complex work
environment," Je ff Raikes, group vice president of Microsoft's
Information Worker Group, said. "Together, Microsoft and Groove will
make anytime, anywhere collaboration a more natural and easy extension
of how information workers coordinate their projects and document
centric work." The Groove technology will become part of Microsoft's
Information Worker Group, which is responsible for Microsoft Office.
   Groove's flagship product, Virtual Office, lets people in disparate
physical locations work collaboratively over a network. Virtual Office
provides workspaces through which workers can share files, host
discussions, manage projects, and perform similar actions. The software
complements technologies that Microsoft currently employs in products
such as Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 and Microsoft Office
Communicator 2005, both of which the company announced earlier this
week.
   Based in Beverly, Massachusetts, Groove was founded in 1997 and has
been a close Microsoft partner ever since. According to Groove, most
company employees will continue to work in the Massachusetts office.
The acquisition should be completed by June, Microsoft noted.

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