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Can't wait to sync my Hackintosh installations.

Cool. Now we need the mobile client and we can really get things moving ahead.

Bravo Microsoft!  I can't wait to try this out.  If they fully embrace the platform and iPhone, this could be a really great solution... just as Mac Office is an excellent suite.

And bravo MS for conforming to the OS X style guide when designing applications so that they look native, instead of the way a certain other company does when porting their apps to Windows... ;) <-wink, wink

Looking good.  I agree with the guy as well www.logmein.com is the shiznitz for remote control software, and its free.

@johnpapola, Office 2008 is horrible to be honest.  It so slow its pathetic. Lets hope this client is nothing like it.

@Snake,

Yeah, 2008 is pretty horribly slow.  But I do like the UI design improvement with 2008.  Much more modern mac-like.  That team seems to be trying their best.

Groove works well for file synchronization on Windows and it's great they're extending it to the Mac in the form of Live Mesh.  File synchronization is great, but it isn't enough.  I would really like to see the platform extended to sync mail, contacts, favorites and calendars on both platforms and on mobile devices.  It'll be interesting to see whether Live Mesh or MobileMe gets *all* of these things working on both platforms first.

Yes I agree its much nicer looking and its universal.  I hope it gets better, as I need to use it daily.  That team is a great bunch of people.

@Bright,

I must say, that .mac/mobileme sync in leopard already delivers all of this except the selective folder sync, which I'd love to see built in.  MobileMe keeps my work MacBook and home tower feeling like the same machine.  Add in the ability to sync folders other than the iDisk and you've really got the whole deal.  Plus, MobileMe sync services allows third party apps to sync their preferences and data.  I'm not sure what else mesh brings to the table that's wildly different than this.

Paul, could you illuminate me?

@BrightrevCarl

The difference is that Live Mesh is a platform and the folder sync and remote are just the sample apps.

The word given out by their team is that the PDC in October will have a lot more info for developers who want to write Mesh apps.

In the meantime, there's some preliminary dev based stuff on Channel 9.

Paul covered it well (unlike almost all industry "pundits") when it came out.

He did a good 2-part intro starting at www.winsupersite.com/.../live_mesh_preview.asp back in April when the initial beta shipped.

Guys, what's the cost difference, or presumed cost difference?

@DrWam

Right now Live Mesh is free. Since it's a platform and not an app it may stay that way but I'd expect to see either fees or advertising for specific apps built on top of it.

well said dipsh t admin... nice to see at least one of the companies showing a bit of maturity.

I agree Mike. My guess is that it will be free and maybe have some add involved. I will be using exchange, but the free product may prevail for 'the rest of them', especially if it goes to many mobile phones.

Nice to see that the Windows based Mesh client now installs on Windows Home Server.  Coupled with the new ability to bypass the cloud and sync machine to machine this makes for some cool in-house syncing solutions (eg syncing my photos from my WHS to my laptop)

Finally, at least for another blog, we have peace in our time. Mesh unites the warring Windows and Mac factions. (Sorry, I find the love fest in this one extremely hilarious.)

Great product, lots of potential. I'll be keeping an eye on both versions of Mesh.

Subzerohitman721 (Can I just call you Subzero for short?)

Don't forget the mobile device implementation as well.