Live Mesh is a new preview service from Microsoft that allows you to synchronize files between all of your computer devices and the Internet. I have been using the FolderShare beta service from Microsoft Live, and I think it works great, so I was hoping to see something even better from Mesh.
Unfortunately, I really don’t see any reason to stop using FolderShare. What I like about FolderShare is that just keeps the computers I run the client on in Synch. It does not worry about also keeping some online storage place in synch (although synching with S3 would be cool). I thought Live Mesh could do this as well, but I have not been able to make it work. It always tries to synch to the Live Desktop. I am not sure why I would want to keep all these files in the cloud, I really want them on my computer. FolderShare lets me browse directories on other computers in my network, if they are on, and grab files I need. It works really well.
Mesh does have the ability to actually remote control a computer, which might be kind of nice. It would allow me to keep MS Office on my desktop and keep my laptop software load a little leaner. I am just not sure about the way it synchs yet. I will keep it on a couple of machines and see how it works. I am a bit hesitant to install it on the EEE PC.
More Later.