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Pre-Beta Mac client for Live Mesh – Review only [updated]

After the recent flurry of Live Mesh posts we’ve done in the last 2 weeks, here’s one more. With all the recent updates that have gone on, users have been looking for client applications to run on devices other than …

Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising Windows Live Messenger content

After the first tutorial about synching browser favourites across devices using Live Mesh, we thought it was time to step it up a gear and take on Windows Live Messenger. Its always been notoriously difficult to transfer emoticons between PCs, …

Microsoft opens up Live Mesh for basic mobile access

After a great tip from one of our readers in our first Mesh tutorial, it appears as though the Live Mesh mobile portal has now also been opened up to the public. Available at http://m.mesh.com, the website provides …

Microsoft’s Online Services Business posts $0.5bn loss in Q4 2008

So there’s a bunch of financial results out today, including Microsoft, Google and IBM, all of whom posted strong profit growths in the last quarter (what impending recession?) Anyway I’ve broken down the results for the Online Services …

Microsoft ad spend rises to $500m – Windows.com gets “FTP” update and promotes Windows Live

Today saw another Microsoft ad campaign being won by the agencies, this time for the Business Solutions unit, with $200m being the amount touted for winning the enterprise advertising. This is in addition to the $300m for the consumer …

Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising browser favourites across devices

With yesterday’s Live Mesh update that allows users to enable peer-to-peer synchronisation and miss out the cloud sync, we thought we’d take a look at one practical example of this – browser favourites. The scenario is familiar, you’re not on …

MobileMe Review

After our original post on MobileMe we came in for some criticism for our rather pro-Apple attitude. Our initial thoughts were that Apple had shown a compelling set of products, that showed some nice design touches and boasted strong integration …

Looking at the Live Mesh peer-to-peer synch

Channel9 posted an interesting video looking behind the scenes at the Live Mesh peer-to-peer synch. Its 30mins long but if you’ve got the time to kill its worth watching. Some of the topics covered (in order) are:

  • The 5GB quota

What Microsoft can learn from the Apple Application store

With today being the iPhone 2.0 launch, there’s a lot of chat about the new Applications Store and Apple touting the 500 third party applications available initially. Ina Fried already questioned Microsoft about how this compares to Windows Mobile, with …

Microsoft demos Photos + Virtual Earth imagery mashup at Pro Photo Summit

Yet another Microsoft conference, yet more demos of unreleased technology. Today and tomorrows events is the Pro Photo Summit, which Kip, Brandon Le Blanc, Scoble and others are attending.

Scoble was streaming some of the footage from his …