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Why did Microsoft cripple Groove?

I'm currently trying to use Microsoft Groove 2007 as a collaboration tool to gather requirements. What I like about tools like Groove is: - You can open and edit an entry without having to start an additional application (like word, excel) - You can copy and paste pictures (screenshots) directly into an entry - You don't have to save and re-attach changed files - You can work offline - Groove works inside and outside of our network out-of-the-box - We have (as a Microsoft Gold Partner) 100 licenses available What I don't understand about the current offering is that a lot of tools available in the last version have been removed: The following tools and toolsets are no longer available for adding to new or existing workspaces : Contact Manager, Discussion, Document Review, Outliner , Task Manager, Text, Tic- Tac -Toe, Web Links, Welcome Page, Advanced Project Toolset , and Mobile Workspace for SharePoint . (Source: Microsoft Office Groove Help) There is also a large set ...

Panorama in HDR

I just came back from Kite-Surfing in Fuerteventura - and here is my favorite picture: It is my first panorama in HDR; hope you like it. The hotel was the MeliĆ  Gorriones near Costa Calma.

My first photowalk in Basel

Photowalk

CERN Datacentre

Last Saturday, we visited CERN in Geneva. Additionally to the LHC, we had a quick tour of the openlab datacentre, where I have been able to take some HDR shots. The lab is quite impressive, but was most amazing was the openess of the CERN people to show and explain. CERN in HDR

Microsoft does have an issue with geography

Here is a new Microsoft KB article about Services are not detected after you perform a DVB-T channel scan for services from Moscow or from Kiev in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 or in Windows Media Center in Windows Vista ; however, if Moscow or Kiev is selected and Germany as Country, then services are detected: When you scan for services in Moscow, and you select Russia as the country, no services are detected. When you scan for services in Moscow, and you select Germany as the country, nine services are detected from Moscow . When you scan for services in Kiev, and you select Ukraine as the country, no services are detected. When you scan for services in Kiev, and you select Germany as the country, five services are detected from Kiev. (emphasis added) After the previous problem of placing the Swiss capital in Russia , this is far bolder.

New record?

Today, I received a "Not read" message: After more than four years sitting in somebody's mailbox! I do not mind this person nit reading the message as much as not deleting it sooner. This one is a keeper!