I realized straight away that this was going to make a huge difference to the way i worked. No longer would I need to carry around a pocket full of usb dongles containing files to transfer between laptops and machines at home and in the office, and wondering if this was the latest version. No longer would i get home, to realize i'd left the memory stick with the files i was going to on work on in the office pc.
In fact Live Mesh goes a whole lot further and allows me to take control of my remote machines and access shared files remotely via a browser.
Needless to say as soon as I got back from Thinking Digital, I went on a mission to get onto the Live Mesh beta programme, and Live Mesh has been keeping my digital life synced ever since.
That was until I updated to Mac 10.6 (snow leopard) and discovered Live Mesh was not supported on snow leopard. It would be fair to say that I was completely gutted. I wasted no time at all in emailing Steve again and asking if he'd heard whether there was a new version of Live Mesh in development, he promised to let me know as soon as he heard anything.
That was a couple of weeks ago, and true to his word, i got an email from Steve today with a link to the latest version of Live Mesh for Mac that now supports Snow Leopard.
Microsoft quite often gets a bit of bad press, but this just another example of how well their evangelist programme works, of how they're listening to their customers and how far they go to support products that are not only fantastic but also in the case to Live Mesh but also free!
Associated links: Live Mesh, Geek in Disguise blog, Snow Leopard
2 comments:
I feel the same way. I heard about Mesh from a co-worker and instantly signed up for the beta. I was excited that I was accepted and I've been using it heavily ever since. I also agree with you that Microsoft has been doing great things and I’ve personally worked with a number of Microsoft folks including evangelists and they are all great people with great intentions.
I recently wrote a blog post that talks about my love for Mesh as well as some of the ways I use it.
It's here in case you're interested. :)
i love snow....
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