Groove makes productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously. Microsoft plans to continue selling Groove products on a standalone basis, whilst deciding how best to integrate them with its existing Office software. It emerged through court papers that the deal was worth $120 Million. Michael Matthews, a former Groove employee and the instigator of the legal action, said that the deal would benefit only the two main shareholders in Groove Microsoft and Ray Ozzie, Groove's founder. Such an order would have prevented them from completing the purchase of Groove. Three days ago, it became clear that a judge would not allow a restraining order against Microsoft. The acquisition had hit a legal stumbling block, which has since been dropped. What is GrooveMonitor.Microsoft has today announced the completion of the acquisition of Groove Networks. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 200 Bytes per minute for reads and 0 Bytes per minute for writes. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0022% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 3.1 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 7.77 MB.
The programs Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft Office Groove MUI (English) 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 have been observed as installing specific variations of GrooveMonitor.exe. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Microsoft Corporation by Microsoft Corporation. The average file size is about 375.97 KB. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows.
GrooveMonitor.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. There are 7 versions of GrooveMonitor.exe in the wild, the latest version being. skype4com.dll (Skype by Microsoft Corporation).f12tools.dll (Internet Explorer by Microsoft).actioncenter.dll (Action Center by Microsoft).integratedoffice.exe (Microsoft Office by Microsoft Corporation).certprop.dll (Microsoft Smartcard Certificate Propagation Service by Microsoft).gpsvc.dll (Group Policy Client by Microsoft).scardsvr.dll (Smart Card Resource Management Server by Microsoft).chsime.exe (Microsoft IME by Microsoft).mstore.exe (Microsoft Clip Organizer by Microsoft Corporation).filemanager.exe (OneDrive by Microsoft Corporation).bdsurrogatehost.exe (Bing Desktop by Microsoft Corporation).