Re: Re: It’s Official – Live Mesh Now Open to All of U.S.

Nic — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:32:19 GMT

I'm not fully qualified to answer your question but there is an interesting interview on Read Write Web (where Sarah also contributes) with Brian Hall from the Windows Live group who talks about how Live Mesh fits into the overall Windows Live story....

There are 3 parts to Windows Live, said Brian:
- Hosted services
- Peer to Peer
- Platform

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My next question was: how is the Live Mesh platform different to Windows Live? And where will the points of integration be? Hall said that Mesh is "a ground-up platform approach", whereby apps and community are programatically integrated into other apps. So in the longer run, Microsoft plans to integrate the 3 Windows Live layers (hosted, P2P, platform) into one seamless experience, using the Mesh platform.

So over time, we will see Live Mesh become integrated into Windows Live products. Brian Hall said it's unclear yet how that will play out, but for example we can expect SkyDrive (Microsoft's online storage product) to utilize Live Mesh technology to enable better syncing across desktop and Web, and among different devices. Also the sharing features of Live Mesh will become integrated into various Windows Live products.

The gist of the conversation was that Live Mesh is a platform and so in future we will see Windows Live products utilize that platform for syncing and sharing

Full Interview: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/live_mesh_windows_live_integration.php

Re: It’s Official – Live Mesh Now Open to All of U.S.

byoung210 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:45:50 GMT

what's differentiates this from Windows Live Foldershare. It seems kind of redundant to have two programs from the same company that look like they do the same thing.

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