4 posts and columns on Live Mesh

Apple’s iCloud Shows How Microsoft’s Vision and Execution Have Again Failed to Mesh

in News on June 13, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The notion of a service that keeps one’s files in sync on all their devices isn’t new. While Apple just announced it’s iCloud last week, Microsoft has been talking about a similar notion since 2008. And that, yet again, is the problem.
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Ballmer: With or Without YHOO

in News on April 23, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Microsoft Announces Live Mess

in News on April 23, 2008 at 10:29 am PT

Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie has finally published the sequel to “The Internet Services Disruption,” the 2005 potboiler of a memo that charted Microsoft’s (MSFT) better-late-than-never software-as-a-service strategy. It’s called, intriguingly, “Services Strategy Update April 2008” and it describes in numbing detail Live Mesh, Microsoft’s ambitiously late entry into a rapidly growing cloud-computing market. [...]