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As most people are aware, Microsoft purchased Groove last week. General comments have been very positive, with most people expecting tighter Groove/Microsoft Office integration. Ray Ozzie and the Children of the Future briefly evaluates the reason for the acquisition, and then (more importantly) discusses what people are actually doing with technology: “IM, blogs, and email have been woven together in practice that almost perfectly simulates what I see in a collaboration suite…”. The question then, if an end user can connect functional tools on their own, why do we need a system like Groove (for all my ranting on the virtues of “connected specialization”, I must say that Groove is one of the best tools I’ve encountered for collaboration and ease of use)?