What is Live Mesh, and how can we make use of it as students? Live Mesh is an S+S platform and consistent user experience across all your tech devices, no matter where you are or what you might be using. It might be a web browser, your portable device or your desktop at home. Mesh is great when working in groups because you now, you can forget about having to email your documents across and so don’t have to worry about forgetting to attach that document to the email. Personally, I use it to:
- Store my documents online (it’s FREE online storage!)
- Keeping my laptop and desktop in sync, so I can use either computer without having to worry about copying files across
- Occasionally using my home desktop remotely using my laptop while I’m at uni!
So, what can we expect to see from Mesh in the near future?
Currently, Mesh works quite well to connect your Live Desktop, and any number of your laptops or desktops running Windows. Let’s hope that the Mesh team will release the Mesh client for both Mac and Windows Mobile soon. Based on their demo, Mesh on Mac and on Windows Mobile works pretty much the same as for the current beta on Windows. Files and folders are automatically synchronised on change. It certainly looks like that Mesh is on its way to become a platform on which developers can build upon to create their own software for the cloud.
What do I personally want to see from Mesh? Remember how you could remotely control a Windows computer running Mesh? It be great if you could do the same for Mac and for Windows Mobile as well. Also if Mesh could support one more platform, namely Linux, that would be absolutely awesome.
Imagine having all your devices all working together to give you a seamless digital experience. By that, I don’t just mean your computers. I mean all your devices. Your laptop, your desktop, your iPod, your Zune, your (i)Phone, your PDA, and your very own piece of the internet. Imagine being able to use any of those devices to do your usual work, anywhere. Welcome to the next generation of computing.
Be sure to check out the introductory whitepaper for more details about Live Mesh.