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Wondering why scobleizer.com keeps giving my Firefox the hickups. It won't load, I need a refresh every time. Better start making backups with Live mesh ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Yuvi it doesn't just sync files. It syncs anything. It's actually pretty cool and will enable new kinds of apps. That is, if it stays installed on my computer. - Robert Scoble

for once, I'll stay slightly behind the curve (or cliff) :-) - Scott Davies

I'm having really hard time trying to get why Joel hates Ozzie or Mesh so much... - Cem Catikkas

Just installed it and although I've lacked enthusiasm for most of MS's online initiatives, I think this one could be really cool. But yea, we all need more/cheaper bandwidth. - Phil Ashman from twhirl

while I agree with the web sentiment, I think real buzz will come from RIA style apps leveraging local processing and web connectivity (internet as infrastructure). - Tyler Hannan from twhirl

Robert - I guess I need to own up. I think you are wrong. I wrote about it here http://tinyurl.com/5fj7nb ... but here is the 2 cents version. Live Mesh won't fail because is has appeal in the Enterprise. The primary reason Russel 2000 companies are slamming in Sharepoint, Documentum, Interwoven, Stellent (now ORCL), etc is management of unstructured data. So just like Office won due to the Enterprise ... so will Mesh. An no, I am not a MSFT fanboy. - Tim Bauer

I'm on a Mac platform and don't use any buggy MS apps, thankfully! - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

@Tim the problem is that as more of our data and our applications are resident in the cloud the less need there is for sync (which is really 90% of Mesh is right now). Cloud apps already include sharing, collaboration, and versioning (the other 10%). Early adopters have already integrated this stuff into their lives. The final nail is that once again, Mesh is Microsoft-only for the time being. Sure we may get x-platform at some point but why wait when all the competition has already crossed over? - Kevin D. White

@KDW. I hear ya but until we all can walk around anywhere and have connectivity to the web and a S3 like repository ... Mesh is golden for the masses ... the bridge to Nirvana that the early adopters bleed to achieve. It is not hard to get Live Mesh into Enterprise shops that are MSFT. Then they will start building/playing with it. Then they will start replicating to their houses to work at night (if the security concerns get cleared). Wallah. Critical Mass. Fortunes are made from such manuevers. - Tim Bauer

"it's not hard to get Live Mesh into Enterprise shops." TRANSLATION: Windows 7.0. :-) - Robert Scoble

Sounds a lot like... Step 1: Bundle Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. That strategy used to work but recently, not so much. I am more than willing to be proven wrong however. Just as soon as Mesh for Mac & iPhone & Google Apps gets released. - Kevin D. White

MESH is like Linux...only geeks will grab ahold of this new "cool" technology. Mainstream folks will not embrace this... same adoption rate as twitter; perhaps even less. - Susan Beebe

I think you are wrong on this one Robert. While this release may be light, developers are crazy excited about it... awesome stuff will come. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

I haven't looked into Mesh yet, but from what I gather this type of functionality is what I was thinking of at the introduction of the iPhone. At the time I was explaining to a friend about how it was another computing platform, and the limited storage and horsepower was a non-issue because people would have other PCs and media servers and that you only need to carry around a subset of your data. Mesh-like synching along mobile computing make for some interesting possibilities. - Cornelius Toole