In my travels, I saw that Travis Laborde was talking about a new Beta from Microsoft called SharedView, which allowed the sharing of applications and screens with up to 15 remote users. Ok, WebEx. So I decided to check it out. All in all I am very impressed. I am able to create a session, send out invites, and host applications to share among the attendees, and all for free. It seems stable. It also feels largely intuitive – something that seems to be missing from a lot of software.

There do appear to be some minor host-side refresh issues in the preview window, and switching to non-shared applications feels weird with the AJAX-like modal popup overlay, but it is Beta.

Tomorrow I'd like to get a couple people on the corporate intranet and the outside world and see if it works through a couple firewalls, and try out the change tracking with Microsoft Word.

Anyone care to give it a go?