Live Mesh as a Platform

Live Mesh Technology Preview + links to all the write ups

Angus Logan's Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:19:03 GMT

Tonight we introduced Live Mesh go and see www.mesh.com – follow it on TweetScan . Read the blog

FeedSync and Live Mesh

Steven Lees — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:03:33 GMT

Congratulations to the Live Mesh team, who announced their Live Mesh Technology Preview release earlier

re: Live Mesh as a Platform

Domenico — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:59:01 GMT

Super Congratulation!!!!!!!

but

why mac compatible??

PLS. Only for Windows!!!!!

re: Live Mesh as a Platform

rb — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:40 GMT

why you hatin' on the macs? we're people too

re: Live Mesh as a Platform

Michael Letterle — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:36:20 GMT

Wow. Just wow. The end of the OS as we know it has arrived. The browser has won.

Live Mesh introduced

ASP.NET Debugging — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:55:36 GMT

There have been a lot of rumors around Microsoft coming out with something that is Software + Services. 

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Bryan Guidizi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:41:40 GMT

On the waiting list but read the features on the initial beta. 5 Gig for the desktop isn't going to cut it. I checked and I have 2 1/4 gig of office data to share with a coworker and 4 gig of pictures to share among household desktops and laptops. I am probably not alone in needing a larger amount of storage. Might I suggest 10 or 20 Gig for the beta. This isn't even taking into consideration 12 gig of family video on the media center pc.

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Security? — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:00:14 GMT

Hopefully there will be a better authentication than just user name and password (like mouse clicks on a randomly positoned screen image + user name + password) or a lot of PC's will be compromised by keyloggers and accessed through Remote Desktop.

Will Alister Stay Grumpy with Ray Ozzie?

frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:43:39 GMT

I got the following email a while back from Alister Cameron and it's been sitting in my inbox waiting

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Mark Figueredo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:04:13 GMT

I went to connect.microsoft.com and logged in and could not even find out how to sign up for the waiting list.

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Stefan Constantinescu — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:30:04 GMT

Absolutely fascinating, but one thing that troubled me was the logon mechanism. Will it be limited to .Net accounts or ... how will other identity providers be able to access the Mesh?

Live Mesh rocks! - Technical Preview Opens Tomorrow

Adventures In SoftwareLand — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:07:26 GMT

Last night @ 9PM Microsoft announced the existence of and first technical preview of Live Mesh ! Both

More Live Mesh - Follow the Live Mesh group blog

Adventures In SoftwareLand — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:20:29 GMT

For great on-going information about Live Mesh follow the Live Mesh group blog . In particular, I'm keen

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kryptik — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:08:57 GMT

From the article: "This project requires deep domain experts on distributed systems, scale data centers, web, Windows, Mac, mobile, networking, app protocols, file systems, databases, synchronization, peer to peer, security and more.", suggests that some amount of mac expertise was required suggesting that support may come.

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jmazner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:43:57 GMT

@Michael Letterle: Michael, I see it in a different way. We think the rich client will continue to thrive, and will be the main way people interact with the Mesh – that’s why we build the client Mesh Operating Environment and the client platform experiences. But to keep the client relevant in today’s world, it has to deeply understand the Web and your digital relationships. And likewise, I think the market has proven that users expect their web services to have a client experience.

-Jeremy

Live Mesh program manager

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jmazner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:46:26 GMT

@Bryan Guidizi: The good news is that Live Mesh works fine beyond 5GB, you just can't store more than 5GB of data in our cloud storage service for now. Beyond 5GB we'll rely on P2P communications for synch.

Shrinking the 'App Surface' - Microsoft Mesh

Gerry Heidenreich — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:58:45 GMT

Shrinking the 'App Surface' - Microsoft Mesh

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jmazner — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:12:22 GMT

@Security: Two quick points. First, in the technology preview your Live Mesh credentials are only sufficient to establish the session with the remote machine -- once it's connected, you still have to enter your regular machine account creds. Second, mult-factor auth is definitely a design point for us, and something we'll support over time.

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jmazner — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:55 GMT

@Mark Figueredo: https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=2001&pageType=1&SiteID=425 should do the trick.

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jmazner — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:29:09 GMT

regarding Mac support -- we definitely want our Mac Office customers to be able to participate in the Mesh! Our Mac client is in progress, we actually provided a demo of it to some bloggers and press earlier this week. Stay tuned...

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Brent — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:02:25 GMT

Didn't get to the invite page in time. Any invites left? Please!!

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ken — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:28:04 GMT

since no one has asked, what about Linux support? 20% of phones will be running Linux next year and a lot of desktop/servers run Linux so I view it as an important platform if you're really serious about multi-platform support...

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CG Estrada — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:50:07 GMT

Way to go team! I am super proud... here, there and everywhere.

Missing you all!

Live Mesh : Here, there, everywhere !

Cloud Computing @ Microsoft France — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:08:45 GMT

Microsoft propose - en technical preview limitée - une nouvelle ère de connectivité au travers du Web

Live Mesh Tech Preview

Ryan Storgaard's Blog — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:20:22 GMT

For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live Mesh

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Paul O'Brien — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:28:12 GMT

Looking forward to Mac and (particularly) Windows Mobile support!

You should fix your blog template so it includes the RSS/Atom links you know :)

http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/rss.xml etc:)

Oh, also looking forward to an invite!

Paul [at] modaco [dt] com

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Lou Rainaldi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:05:53 GMT

Very nice indeed, I am looking forward to hearing more about using Live Mesh for application development. Also, the security of providing RDP access as someone else mentioned.

I was thinking a client certificate for authentication to the boxes themselves?

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Liz Reding — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:09:32 GMT

I'm lovin' this Live Mesh! I hope that when drag-and-drop are added, it'll be tres cool. I also hope that when the Mac is added, digital devices such as iPhone/iPod will be also be included in the mix.

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SC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:35:50 GMT

The setup installer does not proceed on Vista if my account is an Administrators member and UAC is off. I need these settings in order to use/debug Visual Studio and MSSQL. What am I supposed to do?

Live Mesh

Weblogul lui Zoli — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:41:30 GMT

Ray Ozzie a vorbit de Mesh la MIX08 . Săptămâna asta s-a lansat un tech preview limitat. Este/va

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QUESTION — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:56:20 GMT

CAN NO ONE EXPLAIN WHAT LIVE MESH IS IN FEW WORDS ?

UNTIL THEN I SEE NO SUCCESS

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jmazner — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:19:12 GMT

@Lou Rainaldi:

>>the security of providing RDP access as someone else mentioned.

See http://dev.live.com/img/files/LiveMesh1stLook.pdf, which includes:

Live Mesh Remote Desktop builds on the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol, enhancing it in four key ways:

 End-to-end connectivity that is accomplished through a combination of client logic and hosted relays, enabling you to connect regardless of network topology, firewalls, or network address translation.

 Device presence that enables you to see which of your devices are available for a remote connection.

 Stronger connection security, in which ports are opened only when authorized requests are routed through the Live Mesh rather than leaving ports open to receive connections—and with only the source of a request able to connect to opened ports. This is a more robust approach to security than simply requiring a user name and password.

 End-to-end encryption, in which traffic is encrypted with a key known only to the two devices involved in the session, making it extremely difficult for any other device (including Live Services Platform relays) to snoop on the traffic.

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jmazner — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:22:27 GMT

@Paul O'Brien

yikes, good catch! I gues the template we're using hides that info. I'm adding them now the links section.

Got Mesh!

Troy Wilch — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:24:12 GMT

There's a new technology verb in town. Google's has 'Google it'. Now I can see the term

Connect yourself with LIVE MESH

Connect Wireless — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:48:00 GMT

is finally out here . Live Mesh is about software + services, and connecting and bringing devices together

Microsoft Live Mesh

:: My Telco :: — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:58:22 GMT

    Idea brillante, tecnologia tutta nuova... Vederemo le evoluzioni future! Le premesse ci

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Lenen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:59:35 GMT

I just found this post and it made a lot clear about Live Mess and it features!

solo-technology.com/blog/2008/04/26/microsoft-mesh-beta-first-look/

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jmazner — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:24:31 GMT

@SC

>>The setup installer does not proceed on Vista if my account is an Administrators member and UAC is off. I need these settings in order to use/debug Visual Studio and MSSQL.

Some details on why need UAC are here, http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/04/28/get-mesh-and-why-we-require-uac.aspx .

I run Visual Studio on Vista with UAC and can debug just fine -- I just make sure to launch VS elevated.

Why Sync?

MikeZintel's WebLog — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:58:09 GMT

For several decades after the invention of the computer, the dominant constraint was processor cost.

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zadiggle — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:01:28 GMT

Syncing NOT on Mesh...

I think it would be great to have some folder that are necessarily stored on the mesh but still synced via the system. If I have some huge files that I want to backup and don't have enough space on the mesh, the mesh could still track the updating and syncing. Maybe the mesh would store metadata such as filenames, size, modified date, etc and you could even traverse the directory structure. The files could transfer P-2-P with the mesh facilitating. I have 60 gigs of photos of my son for instance that I would love to use this for instead of having yet another number for this.

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zadiggle — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:02:32 GMT

I also wanted to say that I install the Mesh today and it was AWESOME. I emailed all my developer friends to brag, rant and rave. I LOVE Microsoft!!

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jsbenjamin — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:47:23 GMT

@zadiggle

We've seen a similar suggestion in the Wish List sticky thread on the Live Mesh forums.

http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en/LiveMesh/threads

If you want to add your scenario to the thread that would be great. We're keeping a tally of oft-requested features.

And thank you for the positive feedback!

re: Live Mesh as a Platform

bob e — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:22:17 GMT

I have been having a great time with mesh - thanks guys

Got Mesh!

Troy Wilch — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:56:46 GMT

There's a new technology verb in town. Google's has 'Google it'. Now I can see the term

Service update: new build, new features coming today (0.9.3103.2)

Live Mesh — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:49:03 GMT

We are delighted to announce the release of our next major update, which will be available later today.

Live Mesh update

News — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:01:48 GMT

We are delighted to announce the release of our next major update, which will be available later today

Live Mesh available for everyone (with a trick at least)

Me about things... — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:47:17 GMT

The Live Mesh product team just announced that it is available for everyone in the US (without the need

Live Mesh available for everyone (with a trick at least)

Me about things... — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:47:17 GMT

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Live Mesh Preview Expanded

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:32:52 GMT

The Windows Live Mesh preview was broadened this week so you can get an early peek at the device and

Live Mesh Preview

ISV blog-voer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:53:19 GMT

De Windows Live Mesh preview is vorige week uitgebreid zodat je een idee kunt krijgen bij devices en

My MSDN Flash editorial on Live Mesh

Angus Logan's Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:54:03 GMT

The MSDN Flash ( signup ) team in Australia let me write the editorial this month, below is what got

Windows Live Services

Jesper Ravn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:41:31 GMT

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