[OPLINTECH] Microsoft opens Live Mesh Tech Preview to more users

[JKENZIG]

Microsoft announced within the last week or so that they will be opening
up the Live Mesh Tech Preview. You can sign up directly, with no waiting
list, if your country/region is the United States, United Kingdom,
Australia, or New Zealand.

To sign up see
https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/LearnMore.aspx

Paul Thurrot describes live Mesh in this way "Under the Live Mesh
paradigm, users create a "mesh" of interconnected devices, including
PCs, Macs, various mobile devices, and a Web-based desktop. (In the
current prerelease version, only PCs and the Web desktop are enabled.)
You can synchronize folders (and their contents) between all of these
devices, providing you with anytime-anywhere access to your data. Live
Mesh also provides PC remote control functionality, so you can use your
PC when away from home, for example, over the Internet."

I have been testing the service for several months. If you install
Silverlight on your system you can back up all of your pictures to the
Mesh "cloud" and view them as a slide show for example. As well as
upload your music and play it from online Mesh folders with the
silverlight plugin. Mesh lets you open Microsoft Office files directly
from your online folders also.

This would be a great way for Library patrons to save and access their
files from multiple workstations. 

Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library
jkenzig at cuyahogalibrary.org
216-749-9389 



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