Dear Microsoft, I Will Have Your Baby If You Make “Live Mesh” Sweet…
August 6, 2008 by Ben W.
Dear Microsoft,
I will have your baby if you promise to make Live Mesh sweet. Please God don’t let the same team that handles adCenter touch this beautiful creation nor let it disappear into the black nothingness that seems to grab so many of your projects. The digital world is here and I’m tired of not having any of my files. Live Mesh solves this, it actually works, and you might be surprised to know but you make it! So whether I am on my desktop, laptop, iPhone, or internet cafe I have access to my desktop and my files. Bravo!
Sure it is in beta, sure it isn’t actually working for me right now, sure it has problems… but you need to keep this project alive. Internet people are starting to realize they are not tethered to a desk and that they can work from anywhere in the world! You need to be providing the software that allows them to do this easily. I use RoboForm to store passwords to everything yet often when I travel the newest passwords are not on my laptop as I haven’t manually added them. What I do now is I have those heavily encrypted files in my Dropbox or Live Mesh and set to sync, so the minute I start using my laptop those files are there and I don’t have to do anything. Simple solution to an old world problem.
I like to travel lite and sometimes I just work out of internet cafes (Iron Key secure). Using Live Mesh I can access to my Online Desktop and I have access to all my files to work on. There is still a lot of work needed such as letting me edit on the server using an online word app of some kind but you guys are doing great. Yea encouragement!
So Microsoft, in closing if you finish this project it will make loads of cash, women will love you, and it will open a new revenue stream while heralding you into the online web 2.0 world.
Plus I will have your baby,
Sincerely,
Ben Welch-bolen
P.S. If you are interested in learning more about Live Mesh or trying to get in on the beta I recommend the following articles… LifeHacker and ReadWriteWeb each have a great post explaining how it works and showing off all the features. Fancy an iPhone with Live Mesh? Here is how and IntoMobile has the picture and details to prove it. Shouldn’t be too hard for an iPhone app to come out as well (hint hint). Surprisingly ZDNet had a solid post on the guts of Live Mesh and the cloud storage that is powering it. Even Mac users can get in on the fun with a Mac client about to be released and view some screenshots here. And as always visit the Live Mesh Blog for the latest on what they are doing.
Hi Ben
I’ve heard good things about MS’ LiveWriter, but given their past history I’d feel reluctant to trust them with the kind of mission-critical stuff that Mesh might entail.
If I had their baby, they might run away and never pay child support!
Cheers, Jon
Yep, I actually hate most of the stuff Microsoft makes, I come from a big Linux family. But Live Mesh is good and could really be what a lot of people need, so far I’m really impressed with it and if they actual build an online desktop it could be the next jump their OS takes in some ways. Espicially if they figure out a secure way to tie together the OS that runs the computer with the OS and simple programs an individual who needs access everywhere needs.
I hope so at least, if not Google will probably do it