Thursday, July 25, 2002

Microsoft gave a strategy briefing to over 300 press and analysts yesterday.  The focus was primarily on .NET.  Jeff Raikes, group vice president of Microsoft's productivity and business services group, spoke at length about Groove.  InfoWorld reported: Raikes also touted a pact inked earlier this week with Groove Networks that will see the two companies integrate Groove's Workspace with Microsoft SharePoint Team Services, to enable information sharing among project teams regardless of geographic location. The unique value (to Microsoft) of the Groove/STS work is that Groove affords offline and cross-firewall collaboration capabilities, previously lacking in their product offerings.  Cool! Raikes also talked about Groove Web Services (formerly "edge services") as a forthcoming excellent example of what real software companies are doing to enhance their offerings via web services. Jeez, we better deliver this stuff soon, eh... [Matt Pope's Radio Weblog] 10:06:13 PM

A big welcome to Paresh Suthar, who has taken the plunge into blogging. His Bio does not quite do him justice. He would be the last person to be touting his horn but I would like to for a minute. I have had the wonderful opportunity of working alongside Paresh for most of the last 7 months at Groove and found him to be one of the smartest and most capable developers I have met and worked with. Paresh is a master of COM. However, he was able to quickly pick up .NET information from me and others and was a driving force in working with me to solve our huge COM Interop issues resulting in the delivery of Groove Interops (RCWs) and the TuneTown sample in the Groove GDK 2.0. He has now become a .NET Guy. He was also very instrumental in helping us with the Groove Toolkit for VS.NET in 2.1. His group's cool work with SharePoint is brilliant. Paresh is also one of the most patient people I know and a joy to be around. Welcome again. 8:29:01 AM

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