Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

tophtucker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:27:08 GMT

Overall I'm really happy with this, but there's one area where Office Live Workspaces still has the edge. In OLW, on any computer, with no software installed, I can click "Edit," edit a document in Word, and just hitting "Save" saves it to my workspace. With Mesh, with no software installed, I have to open it, save it locally, and then upload it. I don't know exactly what it is that Workspaces has that this doesn't--SharePoint, is it?--but that's a pretty key feature for working away from home. That's easily my #1 feature request right now.

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

tophtucker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:56:32 GMT

I just got invited. I'm looking forward to trying it out. If I have one complaint, it's that in a span of a couple months my cloud storage solution has gone from SkyDrive to Office Live Workspaces to now Mesh. What was the point of those services? Will they be, err, meshed into Mesh? I hope so; seems like a waste otherwise.

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

joeale — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:39:53 GMT

Sounds great to me! My question is how SkyDrive, Office Live Workspaces, and FolderShare fit into it all. I got on the waiting list; we'll see how long it takes them to open it up to a few more people.And how will it work zune.

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

tophtucker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:24:33 GMT

Yeah, there are lots and lots of existing MS services that would benefit greatly from being added to the Mesh...

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Kip Kniskern — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:50:51 GMT

If you take a look at the "pay attn to feedsync" post here, you'll see that WL Calendar seems to have some support built in already for sse/feedsync/live mesh. No clue what the plan is for this, but it makes a lot of sense (and makes some sense as to why Calendar has been so slow to add features etc).

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BV2312 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:34:54 GMT

@BuciboLebo --- I think that for that kind of service they would call it Live Mesh Plus and charge you i think....

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BuciboLebo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:31:40 GMT

Nothing said about syncing all the Microsoft Calendars. Windows Live Calendar, Windows Calendar, Outlook Calendar, MSN Calendar.

Nothing also about syncing Outlook, Windows and Windows Live contacts.

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

VasiS — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:24:35 GMT

gr8! sounds awesome

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

tophtucker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:57:30 GMT

My main question at this point is whether it'll be an awkward thing to manage--whether it'll feel tacked-on or really nicely integrated. But it's a big step in the right direction. Now we just have to see how well it works with everything else.

Hmm, one thing I've always wanted is to be able to search all my emails, documents, etc. from Live Search, from any computer. Maybe we're getting one step closer...

re: Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

Khristopher — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:12:18 GMT

I'm just not getting all that excited about it...