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• Live Mesh Guys love to blog!

  At Web 2.0 Expo, I was impressed by how open and talkative the Live Mesh guys were – of course that could have been because they’ve been locked away unable to talk for two years. Well now they just won’t shut up, apparently, because they’ve been blogging... Posted May 10 2008, 08:00 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Live Mesh

• Live Mesh synch: How to check sync progress to the cloud

  While Live Mesh is not nearly feature complete, not even in beta until later in the year, there are some features that would be really helpful, like knowing how far along a synch to the cloud has progressed.  Currently there is no way to find that... Posted May 05 2008, 06:54 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Live Mesh

• Live Mesh promo video shows Mac and Windows Mobile clients (xbox too maybe?)

  Given Long Zheng's passion for Microsoft promo videos, I thought it only fitting that we pay tribute and post about the Live Mesh one that has appeared on YouTube from the Web2.0 Expo. While I can't offer high-res stills of Mesh bringing animals back to life, there's still a few points you can take away about the high-level vision Microsoft has for Mesh. At first glance it seems a lot like the generic Microsoft "next-generation" videos that occasionally pop up, full of ideas for the future, most of which will probably never materialise.. Then you remember that actually the products it is showing are already here and Mesh, the link between them all, has just entered initial public testing. Score +1 point for lack of vapourware. Posted May 05 2008, 09:11 AM by Chris with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Mesh, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A closer look - User perspective, Part 3

  In this Part we will take a closer look at the Notifier and Remote Desktop. Notifier The Notifier is shown on the Live Desktop and on your device, if you installed the software. It shows up when you hover over the Live Mesh icon either in bottom right at Live Desktop (to pin click the icon once) or the icon in systray on your device. On your Device right click also holds a menu similar to the one next to your name at the top of the Notifier (on Device only). Posted May 01 2008, 07:31 PM by Sunshine with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh: We talk again with David Treadwell

  David Treadwell is the Corporate Vice President for the Windows Live Platform, and we caught up with him at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco to talk about Live Mesh and the Windows Live platform.  This interview was conducted on Thursday, April... Posted Apr 28 2008, 08:18 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live Platform, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A closer look - User perspective, Part 2

  Digested everything in Part 1 already, wanna know more? Here's Part 2, about the Mesh Bar and Website sections! The Mesh Bar Attached to the right on the folders, both on Live Desktop and on your device, you find the Mesh Bar. It consists of 3 sections: News This part informs you of what has happened in that folder: which files were uploaded/updated/deleted and by who and members invited/joined/left. In the News section you can also post a message for those you share the folder with (or a reminder for yourself of course). To do that click the New post link, enter the message in the next screen and click OK    Clicking View all will take you to a new screen containing all activity in that folder. Clicking a member's name will bring you to this person's Live Mesh Profile, clicking on a file name will allow you to open/save (download) said file. Posted Apr 27 2008, 02:58 PM by Sunshine with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A closer look - User perspective, Part 1

  Kip already posted  a Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look, let's follow up on that. So we've already added some devices, now what? First let me start off by saying that the Live Desktop works the same as your computer Desktop (Vista lay-out). Double click opens and in the folders you will find the same open/close/minimize/maximize buttons, there's even a taskbar at the bottom. Folders We already added a folder too. Let me tell you some more about creating folders. You can create a folder on your computer and add it to Live Mesh as shown in Kip's article. The second possibility to add a folder is to create one on the Live Desktop. To do so double click on Create new folder The default sync options are set to Don't Synchronize for the devices you added, and When files are added for the Live Desktop. If we leave it like that it will be a Live Desktop (in the cloud) folder only. You can change those options by clicking on the arrow button in front of Show Synchronization Options and choosing the desired setting from the dropdown. Posted Apr 25 2008, 11:52 PM by Sunshine with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Live Mesh

• Want to try Mesh, but not got access? Find a friend and you can!

  Unsurprisingly, here’s some more Mesh news. If you have yet to see what Live Mesh is all about and you’re just waiting patiently in the waiting list, there is another way you can get in on the Tech Preview. We spotted this on the day of its release, but... Posted Apr 25 2008, 02:08 PM by ScottIsAFool with | with 41 comment(s) Filed under: Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

  So at 5 minutes after 9pm, I navigated to www.mesh.com , logged in with my Windows Live ID, and was off and running. First order of business (after accepting the terms), was to add a couple of devices and synch some folders. notice that 64bit is supported... Posted Apr 23 2008, 06:43 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh: it’s everything we told you about (and a lot more)

  As you read this Live Mesh ( www.mesh.com ) is being announced as a Technology preview. Of course if you’ve been reading LiveSide you already know quite a bit about Live Mesh, we’ve been telling you about Live Mesh (or Horizon) since last December, and... Posted Apr 23 2008, 06:04 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Live Mesh

• Ready for Live Mesh? LiveSide to bring you “Live Mesh news”

  Next week, at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Microsoft is expected to unveil Live Mesh , a new product that will bring the first of Ray Ozzie’s services vision to light. Live Mesh combines a program installation on computers... Posted Apr 15 2008, 07:56 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live Core, Featured, FeedSync, Mix08, Horizon, Live Mesh, Ozzie

• 2 weeks till Mesh - Press invites for demoes go out

  If there was any doubt that Microsoft is planning to launch the Live Mesh Tech Preview at Web 2.0 Expo in just under 2 weeks time, the recent flurry of press invitations to demo events indicates otherwise. All guesses as to what the logo represents are... Posted Apr 12 2008, 10:43 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Mesh, Live Mesh

• Microsoft to demo Mesh at Web 2.0 Expo

  Mary-Jo Foley spotted that Microsoft are set to give a Live Mesh demo presentation during the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conference at the end of April. Running from April 22nd-24th, Amit Mital the “General Manager of Live Mesh” is leading... Posted Apr 07 2008, 11:10 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Tech Preview gets funky Silverlight-esque logo

  We just can't get enough of Ray Ozzie's latest project Live Mesh , so much so that when we saw what could be the current logo on the dogfood mobile login page , we just had to share. It reminds us of the Silverlight logo thanks to the use of that... Posted Apr 03 2008, 10:45 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Storage, Ray Ozzie, Mesh, Live Mesh

• Ray Ozzie at Mix08 - Mesh, Horizon and FeedSync

  So today at Mix08 Ray Ozzie went back to basics. If you compare the headings of his speech to that of his famous memo , there is a lot of common ground. So if you're an exec, how do you keep yourself entertained during these keynotes when repeating... Posted Mar 06 2008, 08:07 AM by Chris with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Ray Ozzie, Mix 08, Horizon, Mesh, Live Mesh