As shown on The Windows Experience Blog, Esther shows the “Previous Versions” feature, which is part Shadow Copy.

Consider the following scenario:

• You set up an offline files synchronization partnership between a Windows Vista-based computer and a network share. After you do this, the files on the network share are copied to the Windows Vista-based computer.
• When you work offline, you update both the network share and the copy.
• When you try to synchronize the network share and the copy, you receive an error message that resembles the following:
  

  Sync conflicts have occured

• In Windows Vista Sync Center, you use the Keep both versions option to resolve the conflict.

In this scenario, Sync Center indicates that the conflict has been resolved and that the synchronization is successful. However, when you synchronize the network share and the copy again, you receive the same error message.

This problem occurs if you use the Keep both versions option while you are working offline.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, the Folder versions list is blank, or you receive the following message:

There are no previous versions available.

This issue occurs when you access the properties of a file or of a folder, and then you click the Previous Versions tab.

Additionally, if you use the command vssadmin list shadows at a command prompt, the volume that hosts the file or the folder will have a list of shadow copies that are associated with the volume.

A C|Net video that covers some of the differences between the versions, including some of the features that might not work if you computer isn’t strong enough.

So you finally have Vista. What can you do now? Like most of us, you’ll probably need a ‘productivity suite’, those applications for the common day to day tasks you need to accomplish. Though there are plenty of free or cheap alternatives, most of us end up running Microsoft Office, largely because that’s what you use at work, or what is most compatible with all the data you’ve generated thus far. You wouldn’t know it by the media coverage, but Vista wasn’t the only new release today, Microsoft also released Office 2007. Keep reading →