Microsoft Live Mesh open to more

Microsoft's Live Mesh hasn't officially expanded to include Macs just yet, but the software maker has said that folks in more countries can now take part without having to wait for an invitation.

In a blog posting, Microsoft announced that folks in Canada, India, and Ireland can now join. Microsoft had already opened things up in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Live Mesh is intended to be a service, over time, that allows cloud-based applications to have desktop components and takes desktop applications into the cloud as well as allowing synchronization among many different devices. For now, though, Live Mesh is primarily a means of synchronizing data across multiple computers.

Several times a link has popped up on Microsoft's site for an early Mac version of the Live Mesh client, although Microsoft has promptly taken down the public links.

Although folks in Canada, India, and Ireland don't need an invite, Microsoft said that there is still a cap for each geography, so those interested might not want to dally too long. The company is expected to broaden testing of Live Mesh ahead of its October Professional Developers Conference, with the service expected to expand to include new features at that point.

The Live Mesh team also posted an interesting blog last week on some of the limits in the current service. For example, individual files can be no larger than 2GB, while the size of all contents in a Live Folder can be up to 10GB. (There's still a 5GB limit for how much data can be stored in the cloud-based Live Desktop.)

[kojacked]

When will MS get it? It doesn't matter how many countries have access to Mesh it will never be relevant. Why don't they just release all of their software to the public domain and cease to exist as a company. While they are at it why don't they give me their billions of dollars rather than waste it on the sinking ship we call "Yahoo". I will properly re-invest the money by purchasing the rights to OS/2 and re-release it under open source as NewVista Plus. We all know what a superior code base OS/2 is and how making things open source magically makes it "right" and and instant success.

[rapier1]

Spock? Is that you?

[alegr]

Does anybody care?
If it's just a file exchange, I would use it. If it's another MS Groove, screw it.

[rcrusoe]

Now all Microsoft needs for Mesh to be successful is a ton of people willing to entrust their data to Microsoft. Good luck with that.

[Kimsh]

Would you rather entrust Google? They have admitted they keep complete records of everything they can grab for UTube viewers...