I guess my previous post was kind of setting the stage for this one. It is really amazing today to see such a product coming to life by Microsoft, and showing the world that we deliver on our strategies and goals for software + services for the consumer. Live Mesh is really a great product and a platform at the same time, that I see started from the consumer and solving a user problem to a whole platform and solution across the board. I really love the idea that innovation was based on solving a user problem instead of thinking first of the platform.

I can't really compare this to the cloud services offered by Amazon S3, EC2 etc.. or Google App Platform since currently the problem space seems different. However, Microsoft really developed a cloud based App for the consumer that extends the desktop to the cloud, and probably will have use for the business or the enterprise.

The major difference I see here is that Live Mesh delivers a consumer solution that extend beyond just the consumer and would allow developers to build software + services applications that would make use of the semi connected environment. It also shows the power of Microsoft to deliver on their cloud services, which I believe is coming out with great services like Silverlight Streaming Service and SQL Data Services.

Further, it really sends the message out to analysts or pessimists who said Microsoft is too big for its size to compete with companies like Google. Yes we may be to big, but today I am really proud to see such an agile model pushing features like live mesh out to the public in a well thought off story to the customer.

I recommend anyone interested to look at the live mesh blog, and especially the videos on live mesh here. Last I heard it was limited invite to test it out so i wouldn't waste time go sign up while you can :).