“Live Mesh is a Software Plus Service application that can be used to sync files between PCs and store files in a Microsoft ‘Cloud’ server. The Mac version will be able to sync files between Macs, PCs and Windows Mobile devices (although it will not be able to sync files with the iPhone),” Hattersley reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Fail.
Hattersley continues, “The announcement was made at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and Microsoft’s Ian Moulster, Windows Live Commercial Lead explained to Macworld how it works: ‘At mesh.com you have the Live Desktop which is a Web based storage space containing folders. On your computer, you can right-click on a file and select ‘add to my mesh.’ After a few seconds the folder will turn blue to signify that it’s been added to your Mesh.’ From here it is pushed out to all the other computers on the Mesh network. In that sense Live Mesh is like iDisk, but rather having the single iDisk folder it works throughout your Mac and PC’s file system, syncing up multiple folders and containing your information online.”
“Unlike MobileMe, Live Mesh for Mac is not designed specifically to sync data from Apple’s applications (Mail, Address Book) between computers. Instead, it is designed to share the files in The Finder, so it is possible to Sync up the files that support applications (such as Address Book’s),” Hattersley reports. “One aspect about Live Mesh that is sure to appeal to Mac users is the price, which is free. This stands in stark contrast to Apple’s £55 per year contract for MobileMe. We enquired what the business plan was, but Microsoft remained reticent on details: ‘We’re not able to say much about the business plan, partly because we haven’t figured it out yet.’”
More info in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Over 13 million iPhone users plus untold millions more iPod touch users (and both groups are rapidly increasing) ignored by Microsoft as if they don’t even exist.
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