No more G3 licences?

[Revett]

This is posted in frustration! I sent it to (e-mail address removed), right there
next to the upgrade FAQ section, and it was rejected by the SMTP server!
Jeez....
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Stopping selling Groove 3.1 licences is a bad idea! I have a small business
and we make EXTENSIVE use of Groove — virtually all our internal custom
applications are developed in Groove Forms and we share a lot of data with
clients and subcontractors through Groove. Now, if I want a new client or
contractor to get a Groove licence, they have no choice but to use an
unproven beta version for mission-critical production work. Even worse, if
they develop even a simple workspace using Office Groove 2007, they can’t
share it with any other people in the existing network.

What on earth was the logic behind this move? And if G2007 can talk to
existing G3 workspaces, how difficult would it be to allow G2007 users to
create G3 workspaces in the first place? (Just as Word 2007 users can create
Word 2003 files, Excel 2007 users can… etc.)

You are causing me problems I don’t need!

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[Emily]

How to create a groove 3.1 workspace in Groove 2007.

Save a groove 3.1 workspace as *.gsa on the computer with Groove 3.1. Copy
the *.gsa file to the computer with Groove 2007. And save it on the My
Document\Groove Workspace Templates folder > create a new workspace and then
choose Template to fix the issue.

 

[Johannes H.]

Revett,
I am a Groove 3.1 user since over 2 years. And I only can say that I share
with you the suffering. I am working in a big semiconductor company. Besides
an Applicaton engineering job I am advisor for a distribution network, where
we use Groove. The way how Microsoft treats Groove and Groove customers is
more than a shame. The overload of work now, and the unnecessary workload,
causes at about 100 People in our network a tremendous amount of frustration.

What I hardly understand is, that a giant company, like Microsoft,
recommends G2007 (BETA!) and discontinuouing 3.1 at the same time. Fully
unacceptable for professional business! That makes me very nervous using
Microsoft products in general. It is very unprofessional. And it is NOT the
way, Groove in the past threated their customers.

Incompatibily of those 2 versions cause, that I am stuck at the moment.

But f.y.i: Groove Distributors sell more licenses. - for me, that causes
even more troubles, and is not a solution. Too many questions come up then.

MY FINAL MESSAGE TO MICROSOFT: STOP THAT NONSENSE! YOU ARE DAMAGING YOUR
COMPANY BY FAR MORE THAN YOU THINK !!!