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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:00 AM

What the hell is Microsoft's Live Mesh?

The company promises a cross-platform way to synchronize your data across different devices.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:58 AM

Is it me, or are they describing .Mac?

Because it seems to me that I've been syncing calendars, mail, files, folders, application data and the like using .Mac services for a few years now.

I'm just sayin'...

Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:16 AM

What? You Don't Know?

Instead of being a slave to just one devive, we now get to become slaves to multi-devices, somes simultaneously. No longer can you say, "I wasn't home to check email - and I was in a metal roof building and my cell phone did not ring - and my gizmo-gadget thang's subscription ran out and I was on hold with my cable company and couldn't leave the house for like a month!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 02:36 PM

Is it really that bad?

Jesus christ get over yourself! All Microsoft do is just BAD BAD BAD! Even when really are on to something they get comments like "(and, yes, there are other apps that can help you do that now)" etc. etc. What a stupid post.

Imagine if Google was behind this project. You would praise them to death.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:51 PM

Google docs

Ok Google docs is pretty pokey and the formatting controls are primitive. But better than worrying about the perennial 3-way sync delete problem is simply to have one source one place one time.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:18 AM

iSync + DFS share + Google Mail used as a drive?

That's sorta what it sounds like.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:32 AM

So, it's just iSync for Windows?

Am I missing something, or is this just a Windows version of iSync and the "Back to My Mac" feature that Apple introduced (without fanfare) a while back? Of course, Apple's system isn't cross-platform, but neither is Live Mesh at this point.

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