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11 Jan 07

For those leery of the Google-verse, Microsoft is now offering a collaborative product which utilizes a process similar to P2P in that files are stored locally and synchronized among team members.
- edventures on 2007-01-11

Are you in the Groove? If not, check out this tutorial from Microsoft.

Groove is an interesting concept, though I'm not sure how well it will catch on. It reminds me of a P2P app. If I were to compare it to Google Office (my term) I would differentiate it as a centralized v. distributed model. Google is a web-based, web-stored centralized provider, whereas Groove is a web-based, locally stored and replicated solution. With Google there is concern over file ownership and potential privacy issues, while Groove appears to bypass that by ensuring that only members of a Groove workspace have access to these files as they are stored on each authorized user's machine and are allowed to sync their changes to the rest of their team.
- edventures on 2007-01-11