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The modern office is a jumbled network of unfamiliar co-workers in incompatible time zones. Consider Groove Virtual Office as a way to work together as a team. Groove Virtual Office uses a peer-to-peer networking model to connect users in Groove Workspaces. In these workspaces geographically dispersed coworkers can do almost everything they could do in the same office. They can hold online meetings, store files and folders, save threaded discussions, scribble on whiteboards, share calendars, and track project information and timelines. A new forms-building tool lets users easily create applications for capturing, tracking, and sharing information among users.

When Groove is installed on your desktop, you simply open a Windows folder that you have created to store files. The folder will display a Groove icon, showing that you can share that folder with a Groove contact. To give them access, you enter their e-mail address. When they accept the invitation Groove delivers to them, Groove duplicates the folder on their PC and sends them their own copies of all of the files in your folder. The contents update on each desktop when any user makes changes, and any other invited Groove user sees the changes. If users are offline when changes are made, the updates are delivered as soon as they log on. To keep things secure, Groove transfers files with 192-bit encryption, and the data can travel through firewalls.