Sign up for Live Mesh

I’ve been using Live Mesh for a while now and loving it. I synchronize my favorites folders between my computers so I don’t have to worry about having all my favorites available at each computer. Once configured you don’t have to do anything to get your files synchronized, if you add a favorite onto one computer it automatically gets synchronized to all other computers that you configured. When you sign up for Live Mesh you get 5GB online storage to synch files with your Live mesh desktop. You can add devices to the live mesh and configure which folder should be synchronized with which device. If you don’t want to synchronize files onto the live mesh desktop you can change the synchronization settings and only synchronize between the devices. You don’t consume any of the 5GB online space when synchronizing between devices only. You can also add other people to a synchronized folder, so they can the get access to everything you want to share with them.

Until recently the Live Mesh beta program was a private beta but some days ago I came across the following announcement:

“We are now accepting new customers on Live Mesh!

Signing up for Live Mesh now!
The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that we have simplified the signup process for our US customers. We are doubling the upper limit of our technology preview program. Our technology preview is still limited to ensure great performance and experience for our customers. You can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No waiting list at this time!

International Customers
With Live Mesh open to more people in the US, our international friends can join in the fun early as well - with one caveat: you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US. Once you do this you will be able to immediately sign in to Live Mesh with a valid Windows Live ID. Please be aware that this may cause other applications that specifically require your native country region and language settings to encounter problems.

Feedback
Once you've begun using Live Mesh, we'd love to hear from you! We are working hard to create the best experience and appreciate any feedback you have. Please send us feedback using our online form. You can also submit (and view others’) feedback and bugshere on the Microsoft Connect website.

While writing this blogpost I received a mail from my colleague with the message that we also opened up the mobile mesh portal to beta users. So you can access your synched folders or even upload files to the folders from your mobile.

Read more about the mobile mesh portal

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Sign up for Live Mesh
  thank you