Microsoft Live Mesh Overview - The Way It Turned Out
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The launch of the first beta in April meant much more than just presenting the possibilities and Microsoft's hopes regarding this new product. It also brought the first live use of the product. On the invitation of channel 10, two members of the development team (Noah Edelstein and George Moromisato) presented the capabilities of Live Mesh. Because the video is quite long, let's sum up briefly what we have.
First, you may access Mesh in two ways. These include the "Notify"-er (software that you can download and install) or simply from a normal browser at the http://www.mesh.com/ website. As an identifier you will need your Windows Live ID. The browser option is a little slower, but it is assured that it will work from anywhere regardless of firewalls or similar issues.
(Also Courtesy of Microsoft)
The Mesh-Bar is a "fly-out" adjunct that provides you with notification and statistics, and activity updates over your Mesh. Your Mesh is signified by the "ring." This is nothing more than all of your devices placed in a circle-like environment, forming a ring. Every device that you have in your Mesh will be present here, and you can use them throughout this circle.
A little more practical example is Live Remote. Through this you can use any of your devices that are turned on from anywhere with an Internet connection, and be able to work on it just as if you were sitting in front of it. Imagine working on your masterpiece picture stored on your home PC on the go from one of your mobile devices -- and all of your work will be synced to all of the devices in your "ring" without having to even think about it.
Live Desktop will let you do so, as represented by what you get when you enter in your browser the magic URL: mesh.com. The only current limitation we have is the 5 GB cloud space. This means that you can only upload and sync 5 GB, however you can synchronize your files only throughout the devices, not the cloud. For now it all goes up to the cloud, but in the long term Microsoft plans to change that.
(Also Courtesy of Microsoft)
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