Groove Virtual Office added to lineup of Microsoft Office System products, servers and services Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced it will acquire Groove Networks, a leading provider of collaboration software for the ‘virtual office’. The deal unites two top technology innovators that help geographically distributed work groups be as productive as those that work in a single physical location. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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That’s something I was saying at the minute I saw the first time Virtual Office.
Ok, first step is to have Virtual Office in the Office System. The next step is to have it at the OS level. Imagine scenarios using distributed workspace in which you are able to add user easily, to share content on a peer to peer basis with all workspace’s users, to communicate with voice over ip, presence, messaging… Now add to this the power of WinFS or Msn Deskbar, and integrate it in the OS with look and feel of longhorn. My opinion is that it will absolutely change the way people are working together. A revolution is starting.