Microsoft Live Mesh is, umm, Live

telecommatt | July 16, 2008

Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about Microsoft’s Live Mesh product. And judging by articles like this one posted at ReadWriteWeb, the current sync-and-store product is just the beginning. What I find interesting about Live Mesh is that it is built on open protocols. This means that developers can begin making products and services that live “on the Mesh”. How soon we’ll see this is anyone’s guess, as are the applications themselves.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com

Windows Live Mesh is Microsoft’s software+services data synchronization platform. Because of its complex nature, most people assume that file synchronization is all there is to Live Mesh, but in reality, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft has big plans for the service and syncing files between computers and the cloud is just the start. When Live Mesh launched, it was currently a closed “technical preview” (that’s Microsoft for “beta”). But now it appears that the Live Mesh guys have quietly opened up the platform for all of the U.S.