Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh to merge

[noaccount]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scratch-That-Windows-Live-Mesh-Lives-Now-with-5GB-Cloud-Storage-Better-Performance-154277.shtml

Giving you more information

A number of our customers noted the inability to sync hidden files, so we added this support. Another point of feedback was that customers wanted a list of which files were missing in a synced folder. Now when Windows Live Mesh detects missing files, you can easily see the file name and when and where it was last modified.

More cloud storage

We continue to see that the primary way customers are syncing files is between their different PCs (or Macs). And we will continue to make it easy to sync virtually unlimited amounts of data between your PCs. When syncing files to the cloud, beta participants get 2 GB of synced cloud storage. Only 2% of these participants are using more than 1.5 GB. However, Live Mesh offers 5 GB, and while only a small number of Live Mesh customers use all their space, we want to ease migration and increase the online storage limit from 2 GB to 5 GB.

A number of customers have asked why we don’t allow you to sync up to 25 GB, given that 25 GB is the SkyDrive limit. While we merged Sync and Live Mesh in this release, we did not merge the online storage system used for Live Mesh with the one used for Office or Photos on SkyDrive. This means that each system has different storage limits and is optimized for different scenarios.

SkyDrive offers enough storage for you to share documents and photos with friends, family, and co-workers. Hotmail offers enough storage for you to store your email, calendar, and contacts. Windows Live Mesh lets you sync all your files and folders across your PCs and devices, and provides enough cloud storage for your most important files. Over time, we’ll be considering ways to do even more to share information across these systems.

Performance and quality improvements

We’ve made several performance updates to Windows Live Mesh in response to your requests that will provide noticeable improvements to your experience. We worked on cutting the application load time in half and made syncing large numbers of folders and adding multiple devices to a sync folder faster. We’ve optimized both memory and CPU usage during sync activity as well as decreased CPU consumption by as much as 30% when Windows Live Mesh is idle.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/08/27/windows-live-sync-to-be-named-windows-live-mesh.aspx

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the update news noaccount. More storage & some improvements hope it will work fine .

[noaccount]

Is this stuff already "live"? This is confusing as always...

[Ande]

Thanis for the info.

Is this stuff already "live"? This is confusing as always...

Well, if they didn't keep changing things, then how could they make you buy something you already have?

[noaccount]

Thanis for the info.


Well, if they didn't keep changing things, then how could they make you buy something you already have?

What do you mean, buy? Those services are / were free, Mesh, as far as i can see still has the same old GUI... and speed (?), but i'm using web interface and no upload speed indicator is provided... Dropbox rulez...

[Ande]

What do you mean, buy? Those services are / were free, Mesh, as far as i can see still has the same old GUI... and speed (?), but i'm using web interface and no upload speed indicator is provided... Dropbox rulez...

Keep watch. MS loves to hook users with free and then charge (for premium or upgrades). I may or my not happen here.....