Richard has a couple of entries (here and here) on YITNB.COM about how MS is really the one with the forks in the collaboration road.

Let's be clear: Microsoft has no collaboration platform, and they have no collaboration strategy. What they have is their bucket of products for you to pick and choose from and try to piece together your own platform and your own strategy. The answer is not just blowing in the wind. It's staring you right in the face on the various pages of the Microsoft web site. You can walk down as many roads as you want, and you'll find a littany of Microsoft products that can be part of a collaboration solution, but you won't find a platform, and you won't find a coherent strategy. You'll find choices. The choices are clearly different from the ones IBM gives customers, but they are choices. They are forks in the road, and there are many, many more of them for Microsoft than there ever are, have been or will be with IBM.

He links to a NetworkWorld article entitled The Move to Groove: Microsoft Cooking Up Major Collaboration Plan.  The article outlines MS' strategy (or lack thereof) for collaboration with their upcoming Office 2007 release.

Alliance Consulting users distributed across client project sites and throughout the world have been using Groove since its introduction in 2000 to collaborate on creating documents or other content Wollman generically calls artifacts.

“When an artifact is a work in progress, Groove is great at that stage. But it is not great when the artifact is finalized and you want to make it available to a broader audience. That is when you need a portal or something that is more server based. That is the point where peer-to-peer does not work so great.”

I, for one, would love to see a production environment that integrates all of tools that Microsoft offers.  Then we would finally be able to compare the two solutions and get a real idea on the ROI and TCO for each.  Plus, it would just be hoot to see exactly how much tape and glue is needed behind the scenes to get everything working.