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April 24, 2008

rivals

Insert lame Mesh pun here

Posted Apr. 24, ’08, 12:01 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Apple » Rivals

liveMesh2.jpgMicrosoft is constantly innovating, designing new, revolutionary, market-creating products that take the public by storm and change the way we view and use technology, like the [insert several high-profile Microsoft flops that completely contradict what I just wrote].

And their machine-gun approach to product-creation has spawned yet another Sure Thing Success™: Live Mesh, an online service (now in private preview testing) designed to integrate a user’s digital life. From ReadWriteWeb:

Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices (currently just Windows computers, but theoretically it will extend to mobile and other devices in the future) as well as to a web desktop that exists in the cloud. It can sync data across devices used by a single users, as well as create shared spaces for multiple users.

Well, it sounds [insert tongue-in-cheek praise of Live Mesh, backhandedly emphasizing Microsoft’s utter inability to turn their grandiose concept services into viable and functional mass-consumer products].

Live Mesh works by aggregating “feeds” from the user’s various devices — almost anything can be added to the Mesh, like files and folders and messages, and it’s rendered as a piece of information that is then relayed to the user in a “news feed” that lists all updates to his Mesh. [insert sarcastic joke about how simple and straightforward the whole thing is while simultaneously conveying the idea that Microsoft can’t do anything without making it unnecessarily convoluted].

Live Mesh does put an interesting spin on the concept of multi-machine synchronization, and the way it presents synced info may actually be useful to folks who’ve had a problem with managing files across their digital armada.

You can get more info (and watch a demo) on Live Mesh at the preview site, and at ReadWriteWeb. Knowing Microsoft’s strength in shipping concept platforms, [insert joke about how Live Mesh will probably never get out of “tech preview,” and this post was really just a waste of everyone’s time].

[via Slashdot]


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April 25, 2008 9:11 AM

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