Comments on: Windows Live Mesh: First Impressions

By: Carroll Benasher

Carroll Benasher — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:07:55 +0000

Hi, I found this article while searching for help with Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently switched browsers from Opera to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Now I seem to have a problem with loading websites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I go on a site that requires Microsoft Silverlight, the page freezes and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix it. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to work is greatly appreciated! Thanks

By: Interesting Reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

Interesting Reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:18:22 +0000

[...] Windows Live Mesh: First Impressions – “Windows Live Mesh basically allows you to synchronize files and folders between different computers. You create a central “desktop” space in the “mesh”, which acts as the central store. You can then synchronize folders on multiple computers to folders in the mesh, and any files you store in these folders will become available both to the central store, and to any other computers also sync’ed to it…” [...]

By: Samov

Samov — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:40:17 +0000

This article is very old… Mesh syncs whenever, whereever…. you DO NOT have to view the folder in windows explorer. And being logged on IS OK. Imagine syncing when other users are using the computer.

It can and will sync huge amount of files. I am currently keeping all my music in sync… 60 gb.

It will be integrated in the next release of Live apps.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:38:18 +0000

Excellent article Stu. Microsoft are quite late into the web-file synchronisation game, but Live Mesh does have potential.

However, it doesn’t matter how good the software gets; the Microsoft marketing machine lets it down. Five years ago, everything was ‘widget.NET’ or ‘wassit.NET’ – it didn’t matter whether the application was web-enabled or used the .NET framework. Now ‘LIVE’ is the buzzword of choice and it applies to every product coming out of Redmond.

Microsoft’s ambition to position everything under the same brand and appeal to the whole market simply confuses the customer. Does anyone understand the differences between the seven versions of Vista? Does anyone have a summary of all the LIVE products? Microsoft certainly don’t.

As an alternative, I’d recommend Dropbox (getdropbox.com). It’s also a beta product, but it’s simple, fast, works across Windows, Mac and Linux, keeps file revisions, has a great web interface, and offers 2GB of free space. It’s not been encumbered by silly marketing messages either.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:02:56 +0000

Totally agree.

I must admit their marketing is purely awful, really stuck in the 80′s where they just use buzzwords and vague statements rather than marketing real-world potentials/examples/uses.

I have heard and read odd bits about it, but couldnt really fathom how would or might be of use to me, and as there are so many other things to grab my attention, I wasnt going to download some (potentially massive download) and try something out just to see … they lost me as a customer or triallist right there.

Thanks for the overview, saves me the trouble … but what is the difference between this and the other things you mention like Skydrive and Live Sync?? Can anyone give a simple explanation?