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Live Mesh Technology Preview: A closer look – User perspective, Part 2

Digested everything in Part 1 already, wanna know more? Here’s Part 2, about the Mesh Bar and Website sections!

The Mesh Bar

Attached to the right on the folders, both on Live Desktop and on your device, you find the …

Live Mesh Technology Preview: A closer look – User perspective, Part 1

Kip already posted  a Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look, let’s follow up on that. So we’ve already added some devices, now what? First let me start off by saying that the Live Desktop works the same as your …

Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

So at 5 minutes after 9pm, I navigated to www.mesh.com, logged in with my Windows Live ID, and was off and running.  First order of business (after accepting the terms), was to add a couple of devices and synch …

Ready for Live Mesh? LiveSide to bring you “Live Mesh news”

Live Mesh Next week, at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Microsoft is expected to unveil Live Mesh, a new product that will bring the first of Ray Ozzie’s services vision to light.  Live Mesh combines a …

No Live Maps for UK Users? We have the workaround

Many UK Live Maps users this morning have found that when they go to http://maps.live.com/ they are being rather unceremoniously dumped on the doorstep of MultiMap. You might remember that Microsoft bought Multimap back in December, and now, for …

Microsoft to demo Mesh at Web 2.0 Expo

Mary-Jo Foley spotted that Microsoft are set to give a Live Mesh demo presentation during the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conference at the end of April. Running from April 22nd-24th, Amit Mital the “General Manager of Live Mesh” is leading …

Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Microsoft has just released a public beta of Windows Search 4.0, an update to the existing search technologies in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The knowledge base article lists the main updates as:

  • Support for the Encrypting File System

Virtual Earth at Mix08 with Silverlight and Seadragon

One of the best things about Mix08 is that all the sessions are online, meaning if you don’t go you can still educate yourself. The one I’ve just watched was given by Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist, …

Microsoft continues on/off public testing of new Live Search update (Rome)

A few days ago Kip posted about a temporary update to Live Search, with the new thin UI. Well the new version is back for the moment, so I thought I’d take the chance to highlight it again in …

Microsoft churning out the Ozzie + Mesh PR, so nobody talks about Horizon

In case you haven’t been following the Microsoft PR Mix08 tour bus, here’s the numerous stops they’ve been making on the subject of Ray Ozzie and Mesh: