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Live Mesh expanding to Canada, India, and Ireland

I received this heads-up from Microsoft today:

The Live Mesh team is expanding the list of countries that will allow sign-up without a wait list to include Canada, India and Ireland .  As Live Mesh heads towards a more open beta later this year, the team continues to increase the number of participants.  This expansion is in addition to the availability previously announced for the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand customers.

Here's the blog post:

Today we are again increasing the number of available slots in the Live Mesh Technology Preview, and expanding the list of countries that will allow sign-up without a wait list to include Canada, India and Ireland! (although you still need to run with an English locale for now.) This is in addition to the availability we’ve previously announced for USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand (see coverage map).

We do still have a maximum limit on the number of users we’ll allow into the Technology Preview, but as long as we’re below the limit, anyone in the countries above can sign-up today with no delays or wait list.

Come to the Mesh. :) You know you want to.

Published Aug 18 2008, 03:02 PM by pthurrott
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Comments

 

WebGuy3000 said:

On a somewhat related note, the USPTO has denied Dell's attempt to trademark the term "cloud computing."  Which shows that there's still someone around with some common sense.

August 18, 2008 1:32 PM
 

johnbaxter said:

I really like Mesh so far (even though my vast mesh is quite small).

One concern is that one's data (the part that fits in the cloud) is protected by single-factor authentication over the web.  

One really should encrypt those files that need it, not only because one's password might leak (for most of us, the account name already has, as it is an email address), but also because we're relying for the security of the data in this particular cloud on the same entity which thought ActiveX was a good idea.

August 18, 2008 1:51 PM
 

Waethorn said:

Really?  To Canada?  Now?

I was using it about 3 months ago already!

August 18, 2008 4:40 PM
 

GaryMull said:

Me too - I've been using it too for about 6 weeks here in Ireland. I'm hoping also that there are no security issues but so far so good.

August 19, 2008 5:48 AM
 

Waethorn said:

"I was using it about 3 months ago already!"

I should note that I stopped using it since I have no use for it, having an SBS box and all, and without any kind of limitations short of available hardware resources.  I still have the app loaded though.

August 19, 2008 6:59 AM

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