Microsoft SharePoint Workspace

Microsoft Groove is a collaboration application that was originally developed by the U.S. company, Groove Networks. In 2002 the company was awarded for Groove with the World Technology Award in the software category. Groove Networks was acquired in March 2005 by Microsoft for 120 million U.S. dollars and the software later integrated into Microsoft Office.

Benefits

  • Communication and balance relies on peer -to-peer -like, ideally serverless structures on
  • Share files of any kind
  • Collaborate on the same Office document
  • Chat, voice mailing, templates, simple applications possible
  • Suitable for distributed project teams
  • Encrypted transmission end2end
  • Synchronization of documents and exchange of information does not require that the participants are online at the same time ( the data is cached on a Microsoft server)

Disadvantages

  • Relay over Groove Networks server is necessary (not just P2P)
  • Only available for Microsoft Windows

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  • Microsoft has integrated in Microsoft Office Groove 2007
  • The built-in chat ( based on XMPP ) has been replaced by Windows Live Messenger
  • In Microsoft Office Groove 2010 has been replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010
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