14 DAY TRIAL // SharedView is essentially the evolution of Tahiti. Microsoft used the Tahiti codename in association with a collaborative technology designed to seamlessly integrate with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Service Pack 2 while leveraging the Fluent: Ribbon graphical user interface of the Office 2007 System. Still, when Tahiti was initially moved to beta stage, becoming SharedView, the solution was transitioned under the Windows Live brand umbrella. And now, as a part of the second phase in the growth of Microsoft's cloud operating system, the second beta for SharedView has been made available for download.
"Hold more effective meetings and conference calls - Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen. Work together in real time - Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real time. Use when and where you want SharedView is easy to use, from anywhere, at a moment's notice. New in Beta 2 - Now even easier to use, with improvements to the sign-in and join experience, group chat to send messages to others in the session, and performance improvements," Microsoft revealed in the product's overview.
Via a Windows Live ID, no less than 15 users of SharedView will be able to connect to one another and sow, share, review, update items in real time while permitting them access to your desktop. SharedView enables users to communicate via the tool's collaborative environment and even to share programs such as Microsoft OneNote, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint, in order to allow access to documents even from machines that do not have such solutions installed. At this point in time, SharedView appears to be set as a replacement for Windows Meeting Space integrated by default into Windows Vista, much in the same manner as Windows Live Photo Gallery is an upgrade for Windows Photo Gallery that ships with Microsoft's latest operating system.
Microsoft SharedView Beta2 can be downloaded from here.