First Looks at Microsoft's New "Live Mesh" Platform

technirvana writes "Microsoft's Live Mesh service launched today as an invite-only 'technology preview.' It is Microsoft's attempt to tie all of our data together. Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices (currently just Windows computers, but theoretically it will extend to mobile and other devices in the future) as well as to a web desktop that exists in the cloud. It can sync data across devices used by a single users, as well as create shared spaces for multiple users." And since it's run by Microsoft, you know you can trust it.

Comments

Antitrust?

[AKAImBatman]

Am I the only one who thinks of the movie Antitrust when I hear this? I wonder if Microsoft bumped off a few OSS developers to get the code for Synap-- err... I mean... Live Mesh? And now that I think about it, is my wife really my wife or actually a Microsoft spy? Hmm.... /insert paranoia and tinfoil hats

Re:Antitrust?

[styryx]

One of the best Hollywood 'puter movies ever:

"Check it out, I programmed it in code!"

Re:so it's like... ".mac"?

[phpmysqldev]

Just what I was looking for!
A way to organize all of the unethically gathered data Microsoft has collected on me!

Thank God! I thought they might actually have to look in two databases to realize I don't like Vista, but I do like pizza and bunnies...I mean first person shooters...yeah...FPS...def not bunnies

Re:so it's like... ".mac"?

[sm62704]

So, anything new here?

Apple invented it but Microsoft INNOVATED it!

Re:Looks interesting

[just_another_sean]

Be nicer when they support mac as well. Maybe they can get ISO to turn it into a standard so we can get an open source implementation as well. I hear MS has a nice, tight relationship with ISO so it's possible. :-)

Re:Yeah, that's great.

[just_another_sean]

Prepare yourself for the flood of home-made porn (BAD home-made porn) that is "synced across multiple devices".

And for the first people fired for "uploading" their porn collection to their workstations at their jobs. Prepared. Can't wait!

Re:Microsoft's naming policies...

[Thanshin]

The entire marketing team is trapped in a basement and the only way they have to ask for help is through the product names.

Hmmm, let me see... Office visual studio enterprise vista team...

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Bah, let them rot.

Now you're in for it!

[Chas]

Just for that snide remark, you get to provide Ballmer with some chairs...

Re:Intergrated service

[FooAtWFU]

Add the Yahoo! games, impending class action Vista Ready lawsuits, all they need now is one disgruntled employee to blow the whistle on nefarious dealings with the NSA regarding your web surfing habits and we can finally begin to smell the rot on the corpse that is MS. Whoa, hold up. I knew Yahoo! Games was pretty awful, but it's hardly Windows-specific. Last I checked you could run them in Firefox on Linux too, if you really want to. So it's not exactly fair to call out Windows on this "flaw".

I swear, the anti-Microsoft Slashdot groupthink gets worse by the day.

This just in...

[cloudkiller]

Microsoft announced today that the Live Mesh servers are going dark on June 1. Any data that users stored in the Opens Fo' So' Live Mesh format will no longer be accessable. Microsoft would like to remind its customers that its users should begin printing and re-keying any important documents before the g-dark date.

Is it I$O spec yet?

[Akita24]

Now that everybody is pre-bought it should only take a week or 2.

Re:Interface by KDE

[xerxesVII]

This part of their effort to embrace OSS.

Re:like plays for sure?

[calebt3]

It was.

Re:Microsoft's naming policies...

[Aram Fingal]

WinCE and WUS (Windows Update Server) are good examples too although both have since been replaced with other names. Just pronounce the acronyms as words.

Re:Interface by KDE

[freemywrld]

If by "embrace" you mean "grab by the throat and squeeeeeeeze..."

Re:sorry your wrong

[hercubus]

I'm bored, so take this... sorey yore board