Microsoft’s Goals
The World Today
- Word, Excel, Front Page, and VSS
- Versioning in Isolation
The World Tomorrow
- Location Independence
- Collaboration
Notes:
While distributed authoring and versioning are common they are currently used in a predominantly isolated manner which assumes direct access to the file system.
The customers of the future will demand location independence and collaboration. That means sharing files regardless of location or software. No more isolated facilities and no more file system access.
Microsoft recognizes this future and wants to work with the software community to meet the needs of our users.