Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Microsoft launches corporate IM. Just days after AOL announced its corporate instant messenger solution, Microsoft has announced it will jump in the market and release its own corporate IM system sometime in the first quarter of 2003.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes] 1:52:46 PM

Microsoft's and collaboration. Forbes : CEO Network Chat with Microsoft VP Jim Allchin yves: Will .NET servers bring collaborative work functionalities going forward? What`s MS postion with regard Groove Networks? JALLCHIN: Basic file serving is moving to project/team serving. STS 2.0, which is part of Windows server, will be a huge step forward for collab. In terms of RTC, we are building an RTC Service which will also run on Windows .NET Server. We are in production (with beta code) at one large customer now. Then there is how Office will evolve to encompass more of this RTC functionality. Groove is a great app. The way to think about it is that we will build a rich RTC platform (meaning APIs!) that others like Groove/Office/others can build on. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] 10:06:57 AM