Netdocs

Sunday, November 28 2004 - blog

Scoble points to something called Netdocs, which looks to be some sort of blogging/content management system. But from reading the page, I’m not sure exactly what it is.

The name “Netdocs” reminds me of my experience as an intern at MS in 2000. There was this mythical project codenamed “Netdocs”, and it was a black hole into which entire teams disappeared. I had several intern friends who got transferred to the Netdocs team and were never heard from again. Everyone knew that Netdocs was huge and that there were a ton of people working on it, but nobody had any idea what the project actually did.

I think Netdocs eventually became InfoPath, but I’m still to this day not sure what that project was.

Update: just to be clear, the Netdocs site I linked to has nothing whatsoever to do with the Netdocs project @ MS. They are most definitely two separate things. The similarity in name just sparked a random memory of a time gone by...

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#1 Robert Scoble on 11.28.2004 at 12:51 PM

This isn't the same Netdocs. I found the site confusing too.

#2 Ilkka Huotari on 11.28.2004 at 1:40 PM

That's a funny story :)I agree that it can be a bit confusing at first what exactly it is. But I'm sure that given enough time it will become apparent.Let's just say it's a software for documentation and content management.I'm glad people have noticed it though.

#3 Steven Engelhardt on 12.01.2004 at 7:11 PM

I worked on NetDocs from July 2000 - August 2001, but I'm not sure how much I can talk about it due to the NDA.Yes, NetDocs did become InfoPath (codename XDocs), but the two have the most tenuous of connections.However, I only worked on XDocs for about 6 months, so much may have changed behind the scenes, possibly severing the connection altogether.