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sbmack7
I'm a Myers-Briggs ENTP. So most of my responses to life situations
are, "Water off a duck's back". Forget it and move on. However...
I got a copy of Groove came when I procured Office Professional 2007
in April. I’m trying to figure it out, so sign up with the online
User Group. But it has only 25 members. Totally moribund. Nobody
gives a shit. The MS Groove Gurus (MVP's) haven't updated their blogs
with anything meaningful in over a year. Meanwhile the creative
people at Zoho and Collanos are spinning upgrades like mad. I signed
up for a MS Small Business Live account, and compared to Zoho, it’s
primitive junk. And again, no energy and no vibe behind the product.
It seems that MS gets their paws on a decent product and runs it into
the ground. Right now, Groove stinks.
Merriam-Websters should make "Vista" a verb, "To Vista" to over-
engineer a software product with layers of complexity and marginal
features few can understand causing it to not function and totally
alienate the end-user. So Groove got "Vista'd" Wait till the
Sharepoint "road to nowhere" shoe drops.
I think a great part of the phenomenon "Groove is Trash" is the fact
that the creative geeks just don’t like Microsoft, so stay away from
augmenting their products. So yeah, it is trash.
Firefox codified the future development paradigm. I.e., design a
compact core and then let the community write plug-ins that people
want. Only MS didn't listen. Firefox and the other open-sourcers
totally invert the MS “kitchen sink, leviathan give'em a 1+ GB”
installed application and they will come design construct. The only
(big “only”) thing in the way of open source domination is that
nobody’s found a way to make money on it.
If open source were not so wildly entropic, Microsoft would be dead by
now. I’m actually starting to think that if someone big like a Dow
Chemical dumps MS and goes open-source, the floodgates could open and
the MS business model might sink like a rock.
The Groove MVP's will be crowing when they finally getting around to
reading a year and a half. Because they'll know only 24 other people
read it.
SteveM
P.S. Beyond the marketing glitz on the Office front end of the MS web
site, the entire MS online help architecture stinks too.
are, "Water off a duck's back". Forget it and move on. However...
I got a copy of Groove came when I procured Office Professional 2007
in April. I’m trying to figure it out, so sign up with the online
User Group. But it has only 25 members. Totally moribund. Nobody
gives a shit. The MS Groove Gurus (MVP's) haven't updated their blogs
with anything meaningful in over a year. Meanwhile the creative
people at Zoho and Collanos are spinning upgrades like mad. I signed
up for a MS Small Business Live account, and compared to Zoho, it’s
primitive junk. And again, no energy and no vibe behind the product.
It seems that MS gets their paws on a decent product and runs it into
the ground. Right now, Groove stinks.
Merriam-Websters should make "Vista" a verb, "To Vista" to over-
engineer a software product with layers of complexity and marginal
features few can understand causing it to not function and totally
alienate the end-user. So Groove got "Vista'd" Wait till the
Sharepoint "road to nowhere" shoe drops.
I think a great part of the phenomenon "Groove is Trash" is the fact
that the creative geeks just don’t like Microsoft, so stay away from
augmenting their products. So yeah, it is trash.
Firefox codified the future development paradigm. I.e., design a
compact core and then let the community write plug-ins that people
want. Only MS didn't listen. Firefox and the other open-sourcers
totally invert the MS “kitchen sink, leviathan give'em a 1+ GB”
installed application and they will come design construct. The only
(big “only”) thing in the way of open source domination is that
nobody’s found a way to make money on it.
If open source were not so wildly entropic, Microsoft would be dead by
now. I’m actually starting to think that if someone big like a Dow
Chemical dumps MS and goes open-source, the floodgates could open and
the MS business model might sink like a rock.
The Groove MVP's will be crowing when they finally getting around to
reading a year and a half. Because they'll know only 24 other people
read it.
SteveM
P.S. Beyond the marketing glitz on the Office front end of the MS web
site, the entire MS online help architecture stinks too.