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A good friend of mine, Aakash Kambuj, is a senior developer on the Mesh team. For the last few weeks he has been pressing me to try out the Mesh Technical Preview - something he has been working on for quite some time now. So just a few days ago, I gave it a shot -- and boy, was I blown away. Mesh is absolutely fantastic. I'm using it on my work machine & home machine to keep my "My Documents" (800 MB) folder in sync. In fact, I'm able to "connect" (remote desktop) into my work machine from outside the firewall from my home machine without having to VPN in. I can also access any piece of content in the "My Documents" folder from anywhere with a browser. It's all stored in the cloud.

Mesh allows you to work the way you want to work... and gives you access to all your data no matter where you are. Unlike other cloud solutions where all the information is stored in the cloud, the performance is great b/c the content is on your device (in this case, on your computer).  It's the best of client + services. Mesh is very much like Groove and it's no surprise that Ray Ozzie led this team. :-)

BTW - don't bother trying to use Mesh on a network share. I already tried that - it doesn't let you. I was trying to add a SharePoint folder to my mesh after mapping it to drive.

I'm looking forward to subsequent versions... I'm already using it "in production".

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  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2008
    Hello,Anyways, Live Mesh is an interesting thing to try. And I am dying to try it, can you please share an invitation ID with me?It'd be great if you could.Thanks in advance,Romanrnglad[at]gmail.com
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2008
    (all the sharepoint readers who never unsubscribed will appreciate this) Arpan Shah is still the man.
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2008
    Roman - i've invited you - check your junkmail./alogan.
  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2008
    Hi I am studying IT-EngineerAnd I would love to try out live Mesh, because I been long time fan of microsoft, becuase they cares about us developers.jacob__kristensen [a] hotmail .com//Regards Asriel
  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2008
    alogan -> Got any invites to spare?/Regards Asriel
  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2008
    Hiseems your talk about live mesh made signup but seems i am in the waiting. Is there a way to get to access if somebody invites me. If so can you help me with it. bhanukir7@hotmail.com is my id.thanks bhanu
  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2008
    yeah mesh is definately neat. me and my friend have used it to move around some larger image files too.  it'll be way more awesome when they get it going on OSX.  not sure if they're looking to linux.  i really doubt it since it is microsoft.