Groovy isn’t it.
Ray Ozzy reacts in his 1st of october blog about the death of email article.
I’ve been a groove user myself for a year now and i must say i use it on a daily basis and it’s allways active in my tray.
Too bad that it gets a bit slow every now and then which is what held some people, which i work with, off in continue to using it, which is a shame.
Something else that has been a ‘problem’ is the fact that it only is available on windows platform, which indeed is a shame as groove would be the ideal tool for people to work together even when they are on different platforms. But i guess with a nice Microsoft funding the changes of Groove being build for Mac OS or Linux are very small. Ok i know most users are on windows platform so it’s logic to start developing there to get a nice user base, but maybe now is the time to look around to start supporting other platforms ?
What also would be nice is just an instant message version of groove for on Ipaq or other handhelds. So that on the road at least reliable IM is possible…
I also use groove on two pc’s mainly to secure the backup of my spaces and because i also do development on my laptop which means windows reinstall quite often. The good thing is every thing i pop in groove will be on both machines and when reinstalling my laptop i just remove my laptop from the account and and when done reinstalling i acitvate my account back on the laptop and select my spaces and off groove goes to grab all my valuable data.
Staying on the groove topic, Hugh Pyle reacts on the fact that Groove in fact is “Open to being built on”. I had a look at the SOAP/Webservices integration a couple of months ago when the SDK was just released, but it needed the workspace to run in some sort of unprotected mode. I haven’t looked at it lately but i guess i should to keep up with things. Would be nice to have a play with the possiblity of integrating groove with other systems (specially as as the integration server is a bit out of budget for small businesses).