[ZDNet] Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove’s founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant… Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove’s collaboration software into its Office line of desktop productivity applications.

Interesting, but to be honest I’m not sure what to think of this yet. Groove is some pretty neat technology, but I’ve always liked seeing independent ISV’s providing interesting solutions that weren’t part of the ‘mothership’. Oh well, time will tell I guess.

More information here in the Seattle PI and at Microsoft PressPass.

Update: It looks like there’s going to be a flood of "Microsoft Acquires Groove" posts up on MSDN blogs. Apologies and sorry for the repetitive information.