SharePoint 2010 - The Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise. Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. Live Mesh Beta. Services : Introducing Live Mesh. Hands on with Live Mesh | Nic Fillingham | Channel 10. Live Mesh: First Look at Microsoft's New Platform. The new Live Mesh service that just launched as an invite only "technology preview" is Microsoft's attempt to tie all of our data together. Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices (currently just Windows computers, but theoretically it will extend to mobile and other devices in the future) as well as to a web desktop that exists in the cloud. It can sync data across devices used by a single users, as well as create shared spaces for multiple users. On the surface, Mesh is a lot like competing file sync services such as Dropbox, SugarSync (which we covered in January), and even Microsoft's own FolderShare product.
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