Comments on: Microsoft Live Mesh: Gateway to Paradise

By: PC Remote Access

PC Remote Access — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:44:02 +0000

Hey @hjlupton, how did Windows Mesh work with linux? My office has linux machines and I am wondering about how I can get to their documents easily through remote connection.

By: Kip

Kip — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:12:24 +0000

I am utterly confused – all my computers are synced via Live Mesh and accessing them remotely, I can sync the same pcs via DropBox and access my online files via Gladinet, and access other pcs remotely via Logmein. When did my life get so complicated?

By: John Dale

John Dale — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:15:43 +0000

@andycox If you want versioning in the cloud, Dropbox ( http://www.getdropbox.com ) is very similar to Live Mesh but with all the older versions of your synced files kept in the cloud.

By: hjlupton

hjlupton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:07:40 +0000

The only platform is doesn’t seem to work on (at least from a sync point of view) is linux, but i’m curious if you can still log in and use the online web front end features from a linux box. When i get home i will give this a whirl on my laptop

By: David Fearon

David Fearon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:58:12 +0000

XP is supported too Simon! I’ve got it on several XP machines.

By: Simon Ball

Simon Ball — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:33:36 +0000

Only appears to work with Vista machines, so not much use when we’re on XP…

By: Christopher Phin

Christopher Phin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:47:51 +0000

I really want to use Mesh ? and indeed can, given that it works on a Mac as well as a PC – but the capacity is just too small for me at the moment. I’m forced ? though happily so ? to use my 60GB SugarSync account, which does the same file sync thing across platforms.

By: hjlupton

hjlupton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:28:44 +0000

I stand corrected, it works on a Mac too! I’m now officially over the moon… will be signing up tonight

By: hjlupton

hjlupton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:20:33 +0000

I’ve been avidly following the Live Mesh trail for a while now, as this technology really stands out. Being able to access files anywhere is something I have long hoped for, as synching via usb sticks can be annoying. The Live Mesh is like the next step from the Back to My Mac feature of Mobile Me, and done on a massive scale.

I will definitely be signing myself up to this service, I can always access it via boot camp / parallels. Now if this service is made accessible from a Mac platform as well, then we are really talking about a killer technology.

It’s not often i can say this, but well played Microsoft

By: David Fearon

David Fearon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:03:43 +0000

Ah yes, the remote desktop. I’ve found it useful for emergencies – emailing myself the odd critical file that’s not on my mesh anywhere – but beyond that I find it too slow to be very useful and there’s no facility to reduce colour depth or the like to speed things up. I’d be interested to hear if anyone has any tricks to make it go quicker.