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A new version of the Live Mesh Mac software is available that provides support for both Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6). Leopard users are not required to install this release.

To upgrade to this new release, you will need to reinstall Live Mesh for Mac. To do so, please go to http://www.mesh.com, sign in with your Live ID, and download the Mac client software from the “Devices” page.

Version number

•         Live Mesh Mac: 0.9.4501.0

Included in this update

•         Mac – Repairs client use for OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)

Feedback

We appreciate your patience as we worked on this fix for you and thank you for using Live Mesh.  We’re working hard to create the best experience and appreciate any comments you have.  Please send your feedback on how Live Mesh can be improved, or send anonymous feedback in our forums here.  Also, if you have a moment, please rate Live Mesh.

Thank you,

The Live Mesh team

With the recent Apple announcement regarding the availability of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), we want Live Mesh Mac users to be aware the current Live Mesh Mac software is not compatible with the new OS X version (10.6).  We will continue to support Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) users. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.

As always, our thanks go out to all of our supporters and early adopters of Live Mesh!

Live Mesh for Windows 0.9.4014.4 has been released.  No action is required on your part, Live Mesh will automatically update on its own.  This release contains numerous bug fixes. Please see below for details, and thank you for using Live Mesh. 

Version Number

·         Live Mesh for Windows: 0.9.4014.4

Fixes

Feedback

Thank you for using Live Mesh.  We’re working hard to create the best experience and appreciate any comments you have.  Please send your feedback on how Live Mesh can be improved, or send anonymous feedback here.  Also, if you have a moment, please rate Live Mesh.

Thank you,
The Live Mesh team

The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update to Live Mesh for Mac and Windows Mobile will be available later today is now available. We will also be updating have also updated the Live Desktop.  This release continues to tune performance and brings a few tweaks to the user experience, see details below. Our next update to the Windows software will be coming in the next few weeks.

Features

• The last location used in the folder synchronization dialog is now saved.
• Live Mesh News will displays the date and time for all news events.

Fixes

• Improved the update experience 
• Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop 
• News now correctly displays the year. 

Mesh for Mac and Live Desktop are 0.9.4014.3.  Mesh for Mobile is 0.9.4014.2

Thank you for your continued support of Live Mesh!

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The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update for Live Mesh for Windows is now available. This release contains numerous bug fixes, as well as a few new features. Please see below for details, and thank you for using Live Mesh.

Features

• Added option to hide the Live Mesh folder shortcuts on your desktop.
• Live Mesh now remembers the last location used in the folder synchronization dialog.
• Live Mesh News will now display the date (as well as time) for all news items, even older ones.
• Curtain mode now properly supports multiple-monitor computers running Windows Vista.

Fixes

• Improved the update experience.
• Fixed display driver issue when disabling curtain mode.
• Optimized MOE CPU/memory use.
• Fixes to Live Mesh Remote Desktop performance and rendering.
• Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop, in the notifier, and in the Mesh bar.
• News now correctly displays the year.
• Fixed issue where Live Mesh Remote Desktop caused all Windows 7 windows to have black borders.

For those of you keeping track, the new version number is:

• Live Mesh for Windows: 0.9.3424.31

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be turned on when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC turned on, and then turned it off, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see “NOTICE: Updating Live Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” in the Known Issues sticky on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

Thank you for being one of the first to use Live Mesh!

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The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update for Live Mesh for Mac will be available later today is now available. We will also be updating have also updated the Live Desktop. This release contains numerous bug fixes, as well as a few new features. Please see below for details, and thank you for using Live Mesh.

Features

• New Media Viewer on the Live Desktop.
• Live Mesh News will now display the date (as well as time) for all news items, even older ones.

Fixes

• Improved the Live Desktop quota calculation.
• Optimized MOE CPU/memory use.
• Fixed Mac client startup errors that caused client to shut down shortly after launching.
• Mac passwords containing extended characters now work properly.
• Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop, in the notifier, and in the Mesh bar.
• News now correctly displays the year.

For those of you keeping track, the new version numbers are:

• Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3821.962
• Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.31

Thank you for being one of the first to use Live Mesh!

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The Live Mesh team is constantly seeking feedback from our customers to help improve Live Mesh. Today we do this primarily through our forums, our blog, and Microsoft Connect, but there are other, often more useful, ways to collect feedback about Live Mesh.

Would you like to help improve the Live Mesh experience? Below are two ways that you can help.

Complete a survey 

We now have an online Customer Satisfaction Survey. Please take a few minutes to let us know how your Live Mesh experience has been.

Enable anonymous data collection

Live Mesh also has a tool that anonymously collects usage data on how the software is (or isn’t) working on customers’ devices. With this tool, we can monitor a variety of data points—such as the frequency of errors, typical network settings, and the reliability of sync—and then aggregate the results to get a picture of how Live Mesh is performing for customers who choose to participate. Learn more about this tool.

This tool is disabled by default because it sends some data about your devices to Microsoft, but you can help us continue to improve Live Mesh by enabling the tool.

To enable this tool, click the Live Mesh icon in the notification area of your Windows taskbar and click your user name. Then click Options, select the checkbox next to “Help us improve Live Mesh…,” and click OK.

Thank you for being one of the first to use Live Mesh. We’re working hard to create the best experience possible, and your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you, 

The Live Mesh Team

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To all Live Mesh customers who have experienced crashes with the 0.9.3712.831 version of the Live Mesh for Mac software: A new version of the software that resolves this issue is now available.

Please update or reinstall Live Mesh for Mac to receive the new version. If you continue to encounter problems, please let us know.

Thank you,

The Live Mesh Team.

Now that we are out of our holiday blackout period for releases, we’re happy to announce that the next Live Mesh for Windows client update will (at long last!) be available later today is now available. Thank you for your patience, and please see below for the details. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right-click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.

Update: Doh!  We are embarrassed to say that the new version is going to be delayed just a little bit longer.  For your safety and enjoyment, the Live Mesh client verifies the SSL certificate of the update server before downloading new code.  It turns out that one of the other things we didn't get to do during the holiday blackout was update our SSL cert, which expired at end of 2008.  As soon as we can get the new valid cert up there, the update will be available.

Update 2: For those of you who have recently received the error below while trying to update or install Live Mesh, the issue has now been resolved. Please try upgrading or installing Live Mesh again. If you continue to encounter problems, please visit our forums and let us know.

"Live Mesh Service is unavailable. Please retry your installation later. [80072F78] The server returned an invalid or unrecognized response."

Fixes

• Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders
• Live Mesh no longer disables Aero in Windows 7
• Continued improvements to P2P synchronization
• Minor usability improvements

This update will bring your Windows Live Mesh client up to version 0.9.3424.14

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be turned on when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC turned on, and then turned it off, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see “NOTICE: Updating Live Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” in the Known Issues sticky on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Hi everyone, Angus Logan (senior tech product manager for Live Services) here. I’m in San Francisco at the 2008 Crunchie Awards and after ~ 350k votes were cast Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell accepted the award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement on behalf of the Live Mesh team.

The Crunchies are an annual competition co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch which culminates in an award the most compelling startup, internet and technology innovations.

If you are a Live Mesh user, thanks for all of your feedback which helped us shape the experience and the underlying platform.

If you aren’t a Live Mesh user – what are you waiting for? Try it out for Windows, Windows Mobile & Mac.

We're delighted to have the TechCrunch gang nominate us for a 2008 Crunchie in the "Best Technology Innovation/Achievement" category.  You can vote for Live Mesh until end of day Monday, Jan 5th, here.

The recent service update to Live Mesh addresses many of the issues users reported since we opened the Mobile CTP on Oct 30.

With the release of the updated Live Mesh for Mobile version 0.9.3424.9, we are expanding the CTP to more users. We are also lifting the country restrictions on access to the CTP – it is now open to all countries. [Access through a 3G network is recommended for a great experience.]

Since there is limited room in the expanded CTP, hurry on to https://www.mesh.com/Web/Promo.aspx?pcode=Mob_FCFS1 to add your Windows Mobile 6.x phone to your mesh. [Clicking this link will grant access to your Live ID for adding a WM phone to the mesh and redirect you to the device ring, where you can click “+” to see how to “Use Live Mesh for mobile devices”.]

If you already have the Live Mesh client on your WM6 phone, you should see an update notification the next time you login to Live Mesh from your phone. You can also navigate through Menu -> About -> Software Update, to install the latest client.

Thank you for using Live Mesh, and sharing your feedback!

The Live Mesh Team

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NOTICE: Unfortunately, the update mentioned below has been slightly delayed (see the Update below), and will not be available today. We will let everyone know later this week when the update is ready. In the meantime, consider this a preview of what's coming! [We do apologize for the delay, and thank you for your patience. We want to make sure that everyone has the best possible experience once the update is released, and we need a little more time to ensure that is the case.]

UPDATE: In the world of services, we have blackout periods where no updates are allowed. This is to ensure stability during, e.g., the holiday season when use of a product goes up and the availability of employees to fix issues goes down. The Live Mesh team entered this blackout period before the final testing of our next Live Mesh client for Windows was completed. Thus, we're holding this update until after the holidays - look for more news in early January.

While we updated the clients for Mobile and Mac last week, as well as the Live Desktop, those of you with Live Mesh on Windows computers had to wait a little for your update - but we're happy to say that it's coming later today! Thank you for your patience. See below for the details.

Fixes

• Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders
• Live Mesh no longer disables Aero in Windows 7
• Continued improvements to P2P synchronization
• Minor usability improvements

This update will bring your Windows Live Mesh client up to version 0.9.3424.11

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be turned on when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC turned on, and then turned it off, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see “NOTICE: Updating Live Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” in the Known Issues sticky on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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We're pleased to announce that our next update will be available later today. This update affects the Live Desktop, Live Mesh for Mac, and Live Mesh for Mobile. We will release an update for the Live Mesh for Windows software next week. See below for details.

Fixes:

• Server-side performace and reliability enhancements
• Minor usability improvements

For those of you keeping track, the latest version numbers with this update are:

• Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3602.818
• Live Mesh for Mobile: 0.9.3424.9
• Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.9

As always, thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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