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Live Mesh is Now Open (US)

Jul. 16, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Live Mesh forum:

Live Mesh is now openly available to anyone in the U.S.
The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the U.S. can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No sign up needed to participate!

International Customers
With Live Mesh open to anyone 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 bugs here on the Microsoft Connect website.

Thank you,
The Live Mesh team

Nice. Now how about the rest of the world?

Thanks Mitchel.

Discuss this Article 12

brostbeef
on Jul 16, 2008
I got into mesh before this and I live in Canada. Of course I needed to sign up through their developer site, but I got, dang it! The only thing I wish is that there was a way to have just the file sync rather than adding the remote capability to the computer.
Snakedoctor1
on Jul 16, 2008
What are the ports this thing needs, just 80/443? Would be great to sync back and forth to work but I think that my corporations will shut it down.
Snakedoctor1
on Jul 16, 2008
Yep a big fat ACCESS DENIED. Falls under big brothers category of..... "Computing/Internet;Remote Access;Personal Network Storage;Interactive Web Applications". Oh well.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 16, 2008
@Snakedoctor1 Yep. Just the normal ports. Sorry that your corporation blocks it. Have you tried using just the Live Desktop web page at work? (You'd miss syncing your work computer's files but could at least get some of the benefits of access to your synced files from other computers and remote access to those other computers)
brostbeef
on Jul 16, 2008
JUST RELEASED Looks like they only upped the number of users and eliminated the requirement to go through Microsoft Connect. At least that was their official announcement that just came out.
Snakedoctor1
on Jul 16, 2008
Yeah, that attempt was via just the web site. Proxy category I am sure. We cant get webmail of any kind either. Security is security.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 16, 2008
@Snakedoctor1 Sometimes security is security. Sometimes it's just "make it annoying and people think we're doing our job" I don't know which you're dealing with but I've seen the latter far too often to assume security admins are competent just because they're busy.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 16, 2008
Or as politicians dealing with crises was described on Yes, Prime Minister... We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do this.
tayme
on Jul 16, 2008
"you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US" This is a pretty lame work around...but I suppose that it works. If so, shouldn't everything that is US only under the Live umbrella work if you do this? IS MS approving that method? Like I said...lame. I don't blame MS though...after all, look at the witch hunt that the EU has going on against them...I'd be doing the same...why risk another investigation. --tayme
bburzycki
on Jul 16, 2008
Ok - I have to admit when you started talking about this a few months back it seemed cryptic and well not so possibly important... I have put this in and started using it and I have to say I have not been this impressed since MS released Live Writer.. It actually just works...... You have to devote some time to this with Leo on Windows Weekly... Now that it is out people need to know about it....and the fact its not just another MS copy.... but it really does what it says... Remote desktop via SSL - hello... that is awesome... FOR FREE!! Another week should tell the story thou.... we will see.. Now what MS really needs is a set of videos to go with it to describe how to setup etc... so more can easily get it up and running.. I would love to hear discussion on the security aspects also..
Cfischer83
on Jul 16, 2008
It's about time!!!!!!!!!
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 17, 2008
@bburzycki The thing to remember is this is just the sample app for the platform. Paul did cover it on Windows Weekly when it came out. I suspect we'll see more interest on the TWIT network shows when Mac support ships.

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