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Microsoft opens up Live Mesh

Time: 10:06 EST/15:06 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein

It just got a little easier to get into Ray Ozzie's cloud. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for) a Windows Live ID. The service, announced in April, lets people share data among multiple Windows computers, as well as over the Web. The vision for Live Mesh is broader--envisioning people sharing data among Macs, PCs, and various devices, as well as opening up the possibility for desktop applications to add online components, and Web apps to add offline components. For now, though, it's largely about file sync.

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#1 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:05:06 PM

I am so surprised this topic did not get a lot of attention here and comments.

MESH is so cool and we've been using it a great deal since it first came out.

I could not work nearly as well without it!

#2 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:10:01 AM

Lloyd: I supect that a lot of comments are vaporizing when ActiveWin decides to take a short nap instead of posting a missive. It happens often, along with double logins being required. Third attempt to post.

#3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:55:11 AM

#2, Yeah, I don't doubt it at all... as the DB has grown, it gets worse. While we labor on the new one, we are also waiting on a dead drive said to contain the original source (which we do not have) - so in exchange for recovering the guy's data... we'll finally be able to fix some of it and ease users' discomfort. Talk about supporting something with a gun to your head... bad form, I say. Bad Form. Any case... we do what we can. We have stiched so much around it - as much as one can... it's just sad. You give it 4 GB, it wants 8. Give it 8, it wants 16. It pisses me off so bad some days, I could just toss it in. We wanted to archive some forum posts to trim it some, but guess what... the app, rather than read from a total post count which is a stored value, re-calcs all posts by counting them from the forums and the news pages - so users would lose post count totals (politically bad, I guess) if we were to trim out old entries.... worse, the app becomes slower and slower over time.

Maddening.... stupid... mind-numbingly stupid.

#4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 08:37:06 AM

I do the Ctrl-A Ctrl-C boogie just before I click the Post button. I've been burned a few times after typing a long reply.

#5 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 09:12:00 AM

#4, Yeah, every regular out there is doing the same, I hope. The thing is running on about 60K worth of premium hardware - all by itself and it pegs RAM and CPU most of the time. A nice mix of rage and steam regularly pipe from our ears when we think about it and the dev that won't get off his seat to at least send us the dead drive... tis ridonkulous...

This post was edited by lketchum on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 09:12.

#6 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 09:19:36 AM

The mobile device MESH site is up at m.mesh.com works well and allow mobile device access to your MESH folders/files.

#7 By 2332 (65.96.160.215) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 09:38:40 AM

I've been using mesh since the private beta launched, and I love it.

I have my favorites synched to all my computers at work and home, and the remote desktop functionality lets me punch through stubborn firewalls and misconfigured routers.

Great stuff.

I haven't played with the API yet, though.

#8 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:07:32 PM

Lloyd - MESH is GREAT! I was doing a clean install of my setup yesterday and Mesh was one of the first things I reinstalled. BTW when did the mobile one come online?? woohoo!

So the steam and shotgun thoughts aren't enough to push AW v3 along? :-)

Definitely doing the CTRL+A and CTRL+C as required here as well.

#9 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Friday, July 18, 2008 05:43:38 AM

#8 Rex, It (MESH) truly is great and the SDK is coming along very nicely, too. m.mesh.com seems to have come online two updates ago (about 3 weeks from what I can tell - it accepted logins for me about a week ago, but I was still pretty early in more involved development around MESH, so it could have been a bit earlier). Yeah, much as I love to help the site, it chaps my backside about daily. The features list provided to us was so extensive that I can say that most people would have looked at it and simply laughed (or cried). We hit it and knocked them down one by one. We'll get it done, but we always have so much to do and so many active charities we support that to say we're all fully employed would be an understatement.

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