The Register: Google Sun (Office) not a threat, says MS

October 12 2005

The Reg on last week's nonannouncement, but the interesting bit is

Capossela added that Microsoft is making an effort to cut down the volume of email people are getting. "People often collaborate through email. They send each other attachments, which is a very inefficient way to work together on projects. We believe that innovations in the new Office 12 - such as Sharepoint and Groove - will ease the pain dramatically. Groove makes it easy to create team spaces, where people can work on projects."
Gee, Chris, didn't you say that about Office XP?  Isn't that the whole point of the advertisements you're running now about team sharing?  Guess that it's "wait 'til next year" once again for MS customers...
"The thing that Lotus Notes did not well at all was to solve inter-company problems," Capossela says. "With Notes you could easily build applications within the company, but it was extremely hard to expand that out. We now see that people are moving away from Notes, and start using Groove instead."
Moving away from Notes and start using Groove?  OK, so at least I was right, Microsoft is trying to add Groove to the sixteen product "integrated innovation" story around collaboration.  But seriously?  Moving to Groove?  Come on.

Link: The Register: Google Sun (Office) not a threat, says MS >  (Thanks, Patrick)

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Microsoft  Add/View Comments [5]

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  1. 1  David Vasta david.davidandkelly.com | 10/13/2005 6:42:47 AM

    I love the comments.

    Thanks for the comments Ed. They are perfect. We all know the truth and if MS was so easy to deploy then everyone would be moving to thier solution and they just are not!

    -David

  1. 2  david racicot  | 10/13/2005 9:24:51 AM

    So, this boils down to MS lies again ...

    There should be a story done about the poor ethics of MS and how they negativily affect the IT industry. With a list of their lies (if you could actually count them) and the truths. Like a truth audit.

  1. 3  Wild Bill http://www.billbuchan.com | 10/13/2005 11:41:27 AM

    you know, one of my favourite Lotusphere sessions was the guy from the CIA talking about how *they* implemented security. And talking about a meeting where they, the NSA and the FBI all cross certified each other...

    Now of those three organisations can make notes work between them, whys it soooo difficult ?

    Groove as an alternative ? I thought it'd been assimilated and dumped (mores the pity) pending the great Office "next version, honest" story..

    ---* Bill

  1. 4  Jack Dausman http://LeadershipByNumbers.com | 10/13/2005 11:50:29 AM

    Ed: actually, I think Crhis's comments were a little odd--it's not much of a criticism to admit the competitors product allows developers to "easily build applications within the company." Personally, I think it's nice that Microsoft still feels the heat from Notes.

    Jack

  1. 5  Joel M. Phelan www.steinmart.com | 10/13/2005 1:43:24 PM

    What Microsoft product of that era (by which I refer to the time when Notes came into existance up until the time it began to support XML) can they claim solved inter-company problems? With the advent of web services, it can be said that Microsoft products "more easily" those issues than before, but the same can be said about Notes/Domino.