office wins
Office Wins - Today ZDNet runs an article about how Office beat Netdocs; or more accurately, how Netdocs is now a part of Office. It happened sooner than I expected, but perhaps later than it should have. One of the common phrases heard on the Microsoft campus is “shipping is a feature”, and shipping was one feature that Office bested Netdocs on, no contest. I think that the problem of building and coding an “Office.NET” is pretty much solved within Microsoft; shipping it is the only challenge left. I also think that the right people are now in charge of that piece. All of us previously part of “Netdocs” now get swallowed by other parts of the organization and continue to focus on shipping. Knowing that we might be able to ship before Office was half of the excitement before, though, so we’ll see what happens.