Live Mesh beta program

I heard about Live Mesh last week and decided to check it out. So I’ve signed up for Live Mesh beta program and it is pretty neat, but still fairly simple. I’ve not (yet) been accepted into the Mesh Developer beta, which is a separate program. As I understand it Live Mesh will allow you to not just share files, but Silverlight applications as well.

Current state of Live Mesh

Live Mesh allows you to turn a folder on your machine into a Mesh Folder. This in turn allows you to automatically share the folder across multiple devices. Every account has one default device: the Mesh Live Desktop, an online desktop which acts like a Windows desktop.

Mesh Folders can be shared with any Live Messenger contact. Each Mesh folder will track all changes and allows collaboration my attaching messages to the folder.

Picture of Live Mesh Desktop, I've shared the Develop-One folder which sits on my laptop. It shows up as a folder on my Live Mesh desktop.

Device support will include Windows Mobile and Mac!

For anyone that knows Office Groove, it'll be interesting to see how the final version of Live Mesh and Groove compare.