Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove's "virtual office" collaboration software into its Office...
The company has said the server-based "Excel Services" abilities will come as part of a future version of the company's SharePoint technology. Today, Microsoft has two different products using the SharePoint name.
US-based Xythos has recently launched its web-based, WebDAV (Web-based Distribution, Authoring and Versioning) content management and collaboration platform in the UK with specialist IT services company InTechnology.
Microsoft has completed its deal to acquire Groove Networks, a move that comes days after a court rejected a bid to stop the deal. Last week, a Delaware judge blocked an effort by ex-Groove executive Michael Matthews to halt the deal.
James Bacchus, head of operations at MoS and Hed Kandi, explained: "We wanted to make it more interactive with user reviews and blogs. The UK's first implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has gone live at the Ministry of Sound.
However, he was not able to say whether current Palm products support Office XP documents. Palm has hit back at Microsoft's bid to take over the PDA market, claiming that even by stealing their ideas they still can't get it right.
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