Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Andy Parkes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:37:29 GMT

Great comparision...certainly helps it make more sense

I thought Live Mesh was in Beta now though?

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

James Senior — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:47:46 GMT

Yeah, good spot, I meant Live Framework in CTP and Live Mesh in beta. made the change.

Cheers dude.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Robin Capper — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:44:23 GMT

Thanks James, I'm enjoying Mesh and have also used Skydrive but didn't really understand the overlaps in the current mix.

The only downside to this strategy will be if the various services don't converge cleanly when/if they do. I currently have to use two Windows Live IDs for Live thanks to legacy & newer services colliding.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Andy Parkes — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:02:55 GMT

No probs

Still a good post!

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Joe — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:01:54 GMT

But the problem with having competing products is that consumers will avoid adopting anything until they know it's *the* solution. They will have a fear that the product that they are investing time into will be dropped in favor of another. That would be my concern now with Live Sync.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

James Senior — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:10:56 GMT

yes - that is possible, so we need to put in place a smooth transition between services and communicate that to them effectively.

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John — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:02:56 GMT

I've installed all three in addition to dropbox and pointed them all at the same folder in order to court disaster. it would be nice if the storage were the same 25gb pool from skydrive, or just aggregate all of them 25 + 5

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Sankar — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:52:43 GMT

I want to be able to sync my files to my skydrive... I think sync is unable to do that at this point. Is there any other solution or will Sync support that in the future?

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Darren Stephens — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:41:05 GMT

As an earlier adopter of technology I've come across and used to some degree all of these offerings. Today I played with Office Live Workspace Beta, again there appears to be overlap.

The explanation you've provided is useful and one I appreciate.

I think it would be great if Live Sync or Mesh or Office Live Workspace could sync with Skydrive and that Skydrive appeared as a drive on my local pc. When I save to the skydrive on local pc it syncs to the cloud.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

James Senior — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:52:32 GMT

@John - yeah I agree, good suggestion.

@Sankar - expect Live Mesh to be the solution going forward.

@Darren - Yes Office Live Workspace provides some overlap, but consider Live Mesh as more a consumer offering. Whereas Office Live Workspaces is more business orientated.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Darren Stephens — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:13:26 GMT

Thanks for the quick response James. Based on your responsed seems like I need to spend more time with Live Mesh.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Erik Winkelman — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:40:27 GMT

HI James...any updates on this? If I'm going to ever use Office Live, it will need to sync to my Skydrive/Mesh folder. Otherwise, there is really no good reason to store duplicates of my files there. Whether you are looking our needs as "consumer" or "business" , we're all looking for a single solution. For now, I'm going with Skydrive, and backing up my folders manually to my pc as needed.

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

P-Easy, K-Shizzeh (PenaltyKillah) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:20:06 GMT

Windows SkyDrive and Live Mesh should merge... remote desktop stays. And me want multiple/folder upload! O|O,

Syncing ability of Live Sync would merge... now copies of the synced files will be available online and whatever computers it is synced to. (Hey, that's exactly what Live Mesh does! Cancel Live Sync then! >_>")

And Office Live Workspace Beta or whatever name it is? It will be a component in the new merged thing, as in the option: "Do you want to share 'Letter.doc' or 'Jessie getting sexy.avi' with friends or colleagues?"

Overall, this merged Windows Live thingy would be a file syncronization / disk backup remote desktop with sharing abilities with other people and/or the public. There, done!

re: Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue

Jorge — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:18:32 GMT

I think it's self indulgent nonsense. The culture at Microsoft still hasn't changed in fact it's worse now. Now you have a bunch of IT brats working in there own private Idaho regardless of Marketing research from heavy hitters like Ogilvy and Mathers. The numbers don't lye. About 33% of internet users are involved in social networking. The interesting trend is that this percentage seems to be static and they seem to fall into a market category. One of the characteristics of this segment being that they are the most poorly educated segment of the market. Another being the least revenue producing segment in relation to internet sales. I hope Ballmer is paying attention to this instead of the scateboarding marketing group he has hired. Ogilvy and Mathers states that basically they are digging a ditch into what is basically a "non-sustainable market". In other words advertizing eyeballs just not the ones companies are interested in.

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James Senior — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:25:40 GMT

Thanks for the comment Jorge. Just for the record, I don't have a skateboard. :)

There is money to be made in social networking, I think it's going to drive product development and marketing in a new direction. We're only in the first 5 minutes of the first quarter.