Last night’s launch of Microsoft Mesh is a hot topic today on tech news sites and blogs. Here are some quick links to help understand Mesh, and some early impressions;
- Live Mesh: Everything We’ve Told You About [1]: The LiveSide blog, which has provided much of the early news about Mesh and its capabilities, provides an overview and screen shots.
- Making Sense of Live Mesh [2]: A Q-and-A from News.com. “If your eyes are glossing over from all the mentions of seamlessness, synchronization, and software plus services, here’s our best attempt at making sense of things.”
- Live Mesh: The Version You Can Understand [3]: Mashable also opts for a Q-and-A approach. the short version: “Live Mesh is a service that lets you synchronize your settings, files, feeds and applications on several computers.”
- Mary Joe Foley [4] opts for a top 10 list, and addresses future business use of the consumer-focused Live Mesh: “But Microsoft also foresees a broader scenario, with Live Mesh being customized by various Microsoft development teams, as well as third-party ones, to be able to sync/share line-of-business data. Someday.”
- Robert Scoble [5]: “Microsoft’s fans are delivered to the promised land.”
- Silicon Alley Insider [6]: “Mesh is Microsoft’s effort to stop the software-as-a-service tsunami that could severely damage them. I don’t think it will work.”
- Mesh.com [7]: The official home page.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] Live Mesh: Everything We’ve Told You About: http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/04/23/live-mesh-it-s-everything-we-told-you-about-and-a-lot-more.aspx
[2] Making Sense of Live Mesh: http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9926229-56.html
[3] Live Mesh: The Version You Can Understand: http://mashable.com/2008/04/23/live-mesh-simplified/
[4] Mary Joe Foley: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1355
[5] Robert Scoble: http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/22/ray-ozzie-delivers-with-live-mesh/
[6] Silicon Alley Insider: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/microsoft_bets_against_the_cloud_with_mesh
[7] Mesh.com: http://www.mesh.com
[8] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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