Get Meshy with Live Mesh

Posted By: Max Zuckerman | Apr 23rd, 2008 @ 8:22 AM | 22,785 Views | 12 Comments

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"We started with a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home..." - Bill Gates

What may have sounded crazy at the time isn't too farfetched today. In fact, I began writing this very post on my laptop, saved a draft to the web, and finished it on one of my three desktop machines (I have a media center and desktop at home, and a work desktop in my office). What really is a pain now, however, is trying to figure out where I have my pictures, music, documents, or programs. Add on the multiple external hard drives I have and it gets even more confusing.

Enter the Internet where you could at least backup and store your documents, but what if you're not online? Or worse, you are online but never uploaded the file! Or what if you need more than just a few files and need to access a specific program?

This is where Live Mesh comes into play and offers a real solution leveraging software and services together for something pretty amazing. The basics: synchronize files between all your PCs and even devices, synchronize files between your local desktop and 5GB of space in "the cloud" (that's code for "online"), and my favorite: remote into any of these Live Mesh-ified machines via the web.

All sound too good to be true? Well check out the video... a public Technology Preview is now available, so get in on the action and GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK!

More Live Mesh Coverage:
- Jon Udell chats with Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh
- Charles Torre talks to Abolade Gbadegesin about the Live Mesh Architecture
- Fillo gets hands on with Live Mesh

Tags: live mesh, livemesh, mesh, mesh.com

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Trix

Live Mesh is something done right, at least it sounds good. With Ray Ozzie at the helm, I'm hoping more services from Microsoft will be this open and neat. I have high expectations.

Anyways, getting in on the action will take a while won't it. I heard it will take a month on a first come first serve basis?

This video seems squished from 16:9 to 4:3 or i guess to be more general, from a wide screen aspect to non wide, it looks kinda odd.

Edit: Were you wearing an official C8 t shirt!?!

Miguel

Very cool technology indeed!! It is an interesting move from Microsoft since the underlying concepts in cloud storage and sync are not very far from actual cloud computing...

Clearly, Ray Ozzie is performing a superb task and he has demonstrated his accurate and constructive vision of S+S and cloud technologies, his previous experience in Lotus and Groove is an interesting proof...

Where do we want to go tomorrow? Smiley

Cheers!!

Trix

I just got invited, this is some cool stuff. The UI is beautiful, and seems just smart. I tell you what, if Microsoft keeps this up....I don't even know what.

The problem now is if I have group projects, not everyone has mesh. When this is final, Microsoft should push this as an optional update...

Anyways, the first step, I'm going to put my e school books in PDF in a folder so I can alwayas have them. Maybe I can get rid of carrying around heavy schoolbooks. Could this be the beginning of the end of paper books for me. We'll see. I dunno if it is easy enough to navigate yet. A pdf file isn't as natural as a book that you can tag and such.

Max
Spaceman Spiff!

In reply to Trix

#Apr 23rd, 2008 @ 2:27 PM

That's a real-deal C8 shirt right there Smiley

bryant

This sounds like a pretty neat app something for which Microsoft is doing a lot of these days. Can't wait to get into the testing...

madd0

As Trix said, very cool UI... Feels more and more like we're going into the realm of a Web OS that works parallel to our main OS. Moe (Mesh Operating Environment) is extremely well integrated into Vista, even though I had to tweak it a little (nothing serious, almost expected from a Tech Preview), and everything you do just feels natural. Can't wait for the Windows Mobile and Mac version to come out.

I'll be talking more about Mesh today, tomorrow and/or this weekend if you want to come by Wink

gogole
Dude outside, Geek inside :)

So cool ! I could have a virtual file server with live mesh through skydrive ,easily communicate with team members and update files painlessly. Sweet !! I can't wait for the public release . Hail Microsoft !!!

@ Max : Make a bunch of those shirts and start a competition (Math, Physics and CS related ) with the shirts as prizes . It would be fun. Smiley