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It’s very few days left at Microsoft for Jim Allchin. He still continues to serve Vista’s community by writing excellent, detailed article for Windows Vista Blog. I am not sure, perhaps this is the last entry, or the next is farewell. Allchin explains the Offline Files feature in Windows Vista:

In Windows XP, the transition from online to offline was pretty seamless — which was good.  The problem was that when you came back to the network and tried to reconnect, it was sometimes less than seamless — and we fixed that with Windows Vista.  Now, when Windows Vista detects that the server is available, not only do we automatically synchronize any files and folders that changed, but we also automatically redirect any open files to the online copy.

Continues at WindowsVistablog.