Getting close now: Groove Virtual Office 3.0 will be released next week...

Barb Darrow at CRN has an interesting interview with Ray:

Ozzie: Most significant is probably the usability of the product. We've done tremendous rework of the interface o make it much easier and lower-training cost to get people up to speed and performance is significantly improved. The other major investment is Groove File Sharing... every Windows folder now has a Groove button in it and if you press it, you turn that folder into a workspace that shares that folder with other people inside or outside the company, puts red marks on files, lets you have chats and conversations privately within that folder, it projects all the platform capabilities of Groove right into the file system. It lets people share folders across all their computers, whether at home or at work and between people who are working together.

For both Mac and Linux, it's not a religious issue. When a customer says 'I have a big order and want to place it but I'll make it contingent on the availability of a Linux or Mac version' we'll be coding away.