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Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh

Time: 00:11 EST/05:11 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service’s official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week.

(Here’s a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its Live Mesh tech preview later this week.)

Live Mesh is an ambitious initiative — a combination of a platform and a service — and one that’s been more than two years in the making, according to company officials with whom I spoke earlier this week. I’d go so far as to say Live Mesh will be Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s “make it or break it” project, given Ozzie has been setting the stage for Live Mesh since October 2005, when he outlined his pie-in-the-sky goals for it (without calling it Live Mesh) in his “Internet Services Disruption” memo to the troops.