Microsoft’s Live Mesh: an early technology preview

Yesterday Microsoft showed the world Live Mesh, this collaboration and synchronization platform/service will have around 10,000 testers and they will give the service a good going over starting this week thanks to the technology preview of Live Mesh that testers get.

You can see some images on this page of what Microsoft’s Live Mesh looks like and a little bit of information for each. Users of Live Mesh will see a cloud (see photo above) that lists all of the applications, files and devices that they are connected with.

Live Mesh’s Sign In dialog box prompts users for theier Windows Live IDs.

After installing the Live Mesh software, users will see a Live Mesh notifier icon in the their Windows taskbar. Hovering on the icon brings up the Live Mesh notifier, which provides updates on what’s going on in users’ meshes.

The Live Mesh Notifier provides a choice of three views of what’s in users’ meshes. The three are Folders view, Devices view and News-Feed view. This is what the Devices view looks like.

Users can choose how Live Mesh folders are synchronized across their meshes by specifying the devices on which they want the folders to be available and when to synchronize files.

Live Mesh allows users to monitor not just devices and folders, but also people who are selected to be part of a mesh. In the Live Mesh bar Members view, users can see who else has access to particular Live Folders and invite others to share folders.

The Remote Desktop will provide users with a way to access devices, folders and other data remotely. This feature is built on top of the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol.

Source: Read