From today's Wall St Journal [ subscription required ] : "Microsoft also appointed a highly regarded computer scientist to oversee each of three new divisions' shift to more network-based methods of distribution. The executive, Ray Ozzie, joined Microsoft when it bought his company Groove Networks earlier...

The current issue FORTUNE magazine has an excellent interview with Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates about the future of Email. Gates and Ozzie: How to Escape E-Mail Hell Microsoft's top geek and his newest tech guru explain why they love—and hate—e-mail, and how they plan to fix it.

This is something I posted within a Groove space (in a discussion thread regarding BitTorrent, Podcasting & Groove). Posted here verbatim. Regarding Podcasting - Carl Franklin (an associate - we run the local .NET developers group www.ctdotnet.com ) has a terrific 'video' on configuring Bittorrent...

I attended a webcast on Disaster Relief and Emergency Preparedness series - 'Role of the Internet and New Media in Tsunami Relief Efforts'. The archive of the webcast is available here - DDN Archives . There were a couple of interesting points I gathered: a). An overwhelming enthusiasm and support of...

The past week has been a harrowing experience - all is well in Bombay where some of my family live but all is not well elsewhere in SE India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and other near-by countries. The devastation is almost apocalyptic. The past few days I have been a 'Virtual Volunteer' with Info...

Sacre Bleu! It's the first Groove Event in France! That's what Jean-Michel tells me. His firm - Hommes & Process builds and distributes Groove tools. More event details here . I met Jean-Michel at the Groove Developer Conference last March in Boston. He's truly a business visionary with a technical...

John Durant has an article on MSDN which gives an excellent overview of MS Collaboration Technologies. I do work with collaborative systems, primarily with SharePoint and Groove . I was hoping that there would be some mention of Groove in John's article - after all, MS does have a considerable stake...

Steve Gilmor interviews Ray Ozzie about Longhorn & Groove [ eWeek 11.12.03 ] Ozzie says - “Yes. We're a Longhorn design partner so we're very familiar with it, but what I was absorbing more than anything else was how Microsoft was positioning how it works to the developer community. That's...

This week was eventful - Microsoft launched the much-awaited Office 2003. I attended the launch event at the Hartford Civic Center and saw presentations (Developer track) on how to develop and integrate applications with the new beast. Also in the same arena are the new features in Groove that dovetails...

Ingo Rammer's current newsletter has an excellent technote on 'The Flowchart Lie'. The subject is about transactional business processes and how they are deployed. Ingo emphasizes the need for messaging systems to communicate between web services. (I call it 'musical conducting' :-) I am grappling with...