Brewed Fresh Daily

Although I have mixed feelings about it, I have uninstalled my trial version of Groove. Groove has the right idea about collaborative work: It makes it super-easy to create shared workspaces, to invite people to join, and to add documents, pictures, and as many or few tools (notepad, calendar, sketchpad, discussion list, text chat, voice chat, etc.) as are needed for a particular project. Plus it seems to do a pretty good job behind the scenes of keeping everything synchronized across multiple computers without requiring that people always have to be online. These are things that I and most of the people I work with desperately, desperately need to get our jobs done. But sadly, for me Groove doesn't actually work as it should. The symptoms are: 1. Groove makes my desktop a little less stable. On my oldish machines both at work and at home other programs occasionally crash when Groove is running, and printing won't work. 2. I have repeatedly held back from inviting people to join a workspace because I felt reluctant to subject them to the 30M download, plus the time they would have to spend installing the system. 3. I have repeatedly held back from creating a workspace for a project because I felt reluctant to tie the project to my and others' continued use of Groove.