A year after buying Groove Networks and its peer-to-peer technology, Microsoft has begun laying out plans to develop the software into the offline client that has been missing in its document collaboration story. Office Groove 2007, which Microsoft introduced late last month, is being developed as the cache (offline) client for Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services and the renamed SharePoint Server in Office 2007. Its offline capabilities provide better support for distributed work teams and mobile workers, who can take work offline — in much the same way as they do with e-mail — and synchronize changes once they're reconnected to the network.
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