It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

Would like to learn more about Office 2010?

Microsoft launched a new video website to support the 2010 launch campaign : http://www.office2010themovie.com/

Also available,  a blog and a forum dedicated to Office 2010 :

•   http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/
•   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2010general/

Officially published today on a Microsoft blog, Groove 2010 will be renamed SharePoint Workspace 2010 !
This new name confirms the direction that Groove will follow in this major version to come: an advanced integration with Office products and more precisely with SharePoint 2010.

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/groove_development_team/archive/2009/05/13/makeover-for-groove-sharepoint-workspace-2010.aspx

Mary-Jo Foley posted yesterday on the well known “All about Microsoft” ZDNet blog, an article related to Office 14 and focused on the fact that Microsoft currently do not provide a lot of official information about what this new Office version will look like…  In this article, she shortly covered several points : Office Web Application, SharePoint 14, TAP Program, Office Ribbon, etc. One of her points was related to Groove.

She wrote:

“I’ve heard from a couple of sources that SharePoint 14 will include offline access and that this access most likely will be provided via the Groove Networks technology that Microsoft acquired in 2005 when it bought Ray Ozzie’s company. Microsoft has been selling Groove and Groove Services since then, but has done little to tighten the integration between Groove and SharePoint. A recent query for survey participants by Microsoft user-research team shows that Microsoft is definitely interested in this integration”

Like Mary-Jo, I think that a lot of people are looking forward to get Microsoft official information related to Office 14