Live Mesh is alive
Live mesh was one of the most exciting technologies mentioned with the Azure platform. The synchronization between people software devices and data was a promising idea.
The problem was that suddenly people in Microsoft stopped talking about it. The blog was idled and no new information was released.
I personally was deeply concerned that this exciting new technology will be thrown away like many other good technologies…
Well I am happy to announce that Live Mesh is alive. It was renamed to "Windows Live Sync". LiveSide posted a bunch of new screen shots and information about some of the long-awaited Windows Live Wave 4 services and Windows Live Sync is mentioned as the new evolution of Live Mesh.
Windows Live Wave 4 is the next refresh of the various consumer-focused services that Microsoft delivers as an adjunct to Windows.(Messenger, Hotmail, Photo Gallery, Writer etc)
Microsoft has many sync technologies. It does not make sense to keep suck duplication so it turns out that the Live Mesh technology or as it will be called Windows Live Sync is going to be the one.
The questions is: "When is Windows Live Wave 4 is going to happen?". I heard rumors that Public beta of Wave 4 may happen this spring (just around the corner..)
According to LiveSide:
“Windows Live Sync has gotten a complete revamp, pretty much dumping the old FolderShare interface and becomes a new piece of software in itself. As the client-side for Windows Live Devices, Sync will allow you to synchronize files between devices and SkyDrive, as well as providing remote access to your PCs over the internet. Perhaps the most interesting piece of news is that Windows Live Sync will also support synchronisation of your program settings … allowing you to synchronize your Internet Explorer settings between two or more computers.”
synchronization of software settings will allow fast setup on all machines and will improve our quality of life.
So: Do not worry live mesh (Windows Live Sync) is alive . Let us wait for the API. It will be exciting…
Manu