Microsoft hits it big on Webware's top 100 Web Applications for 2008

Max — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:20:00 GMT

The voting is complete and the winners are posted from Webware's top 100 web apps chosen by the community (that's you!). The list is full of really great products and services that I have found to be invaluable tools for everyday Internet use. It was also nice to see some of Microsoft's recent advancements in the online space on some of the top 10 lists. Zune side by side with Pandora. Live Search up there with Google. Windows Live next to Skype and Yahoo! Mail.

Some of these services are pretty new have had rocky starts but are definitely contenders today as can be seen by how the community feels. If you haven't checked out Live Search lately, give it a shot. The results are MUUUUUCH better than they used to be and it has actually become my homepage. I personally use Pandora all the time but have augmented my music knowledge-base considerably with the Zune Social capabilities.

This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if Live Mesh took a few winner's slots in the near future :)

Get Meshy with Live Mesh

Max — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:22:00 GMT

"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!

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Microsoft hits it big on Webware's top 100 Web Applications for 2008

Get Meshy with Live Mesh