“For years, Microsoft, under Ray Ozzie, has been on about the opportunity of merging software with the cloud,” Ina Fried writes for AllThingsD. “In particular, Ozzie’s team laid the ground work for Live Mesh, a software service designed to keep documents in sync, in the cloud and on devices.’
“But after a quick start out of the gate when it was launched back in 2008, Mesh has been running in place at best for the past several years,” Fried writes. “It has gone through name changes, feature changes and switched places in the Microsoft organization. Yet, it remains limited by its caveats and complexity.”
“While Google touted its cloud-only approach with Docs and Microsoft allowed Mesh to stagnate, Apple flew largely under the radar. It took baby steps of its own, mainly with a little-known product called iDisk that allowed documents to be saved to the cloud. Like Mesh, it was limited and cumbersome, “Fried writes. “But Apple has clearly learned from its mistakes.”
Fried wonders, “Has Microsoft?”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: They probably have, likely several hundred times over, but each one got lost in the hopeless vacuum of corporate politics and stifling, paralyzing bureaucracy.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]