no x64 support?

G

Gregg Johnston [MSFT]

Just to give some context, when Groove Networks was aquired, Office 2007 was
already several cycles ahead of the game and we needed to catch up. there
needed to be some compramises made. While the Server products are 64 bit,
the client is not. Client on 64 bit machines is getting a very hard look for
future versions. Hang in there.

Gregg
 
C

Conrad

Gregg Johnston said:
Just to give some context, when Groove Networks was aquired, Office 2007 was
already several cycles ahead of the game and we needed to catch up. there
needed to be some compramises made. While the Server products are 64 bit,
the client is not. Client on 64 bit machines is getting a very hard look for
future versions. Hang in there.
Hmm, "getting a hard look" in 2008, when Microsoft acquired Groove Networks
in early 2005, is not very reassuring. If it's only "getting a hard look"
now, would you expect that any sort of working release is at least a year
away?

In the mean time, I found a convoluted configuration that seems to work, I'm
not sure if others have already tried this:

1. Install VirtualPC and set up a virtual machine running a 32-bit OS (I
chose XP over Vista to minimize disk space; can use < 10GB virtual disk.)

2. Install Groove on the virtual machine.

3. Set up your Groove account and fetch your Groove workspaces.

4. Use Windows XP file sharing to share your Groove directory from the
virtual machine to the network.

5. On the real machine running Vista-x64, go to "Network" and access the
shared drive.

I'm able to run Excel, Word, and even QuickBooks in Vista-x64; when it saves
files, the changes get propagated out to other machines. QuickBooks seemed a
little slower than usual but that's just a feeling, I didn't do any
benchmarks.

I added VirtualPC to my Vista Startup folder, and added Groove 2007 to the
Windows XP Startup folder, so everything starts up in the background
automatically and I pretty much don't have to deal with the virtual machine
at all.

I've only been using this for a few hours, I'll try to follow up after I get
more experience with this setup. It seems drastic, but once set up it seems
to work.
 
B

Bijan

is there going to be some sot of an attempt at fixing this any time in the
near future? Groove looks AMAZING and i really want to use it but i CAN'T cuz
i chose vista ultimate x64!
 
J

Jansen, Jeroen2

Groove is running on my x64 machine with Vista Ultimate.
The only thing that I cannot use is the File Sharing Workspace.
That is not a problem for me because our company policy denies the use of
that kind of workspace for everyone.

And the rest of Groove is working perfectly

see ya

Jeroen
 
D

DaveBo

I find it unbelievable that Microsoft could release a program that is not
compatible with their featured Vista 64 - or at least release a fix/patch
after all this time. I worked there for over 10 years and know that when a
fix is so slow in coming it is not a good sign. This is poor form and MSFT
should know better. Please tell me that I am mistaken and Groove does in fact
sync on Vista 64.
 

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