A user has two files open in Microsoft Word; one is named salary.docx and the other is named pay.docx. When the user makes a change to salary.docx, the pay.docx window updates with the change that was just made to salary.docx. Why does this happen?
A) The files are on a FAT partition that has corrupted clusters.
B) The pay.docx file is hard linked to the salary.docx file.
C) A bug in Microsoft Word is causing the problem.
D) The user is using an NTFS feature called Shadow Copies.

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Hard links in NTFS allow two file names to point to the same content. If salary.docx and pay.docx are hard linked, changes made to one will reflect in the other. This is not a behavior of FAT corruption, a Word bug, or Shadow Copies, which are used for backup and do not cause live file updates.

A User Has Two Files Open in Microsoft Word; One