Ray Ozzie: Introducing Live Mesh

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Apr 22nd @ 8:59 PM

In his first Channel9 interview, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect sits down with Jon Udell to talk about Live Mesh, a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage "to the cloud." You'll hear about the history of Live Mesh, how it has been influenced by Ray's previous work on products like Groove and Lotus Notes. Ray also discusses the core technology that forms the basis for Live Mesh including REST APIs, XML, and synchronization APIs that enable you sync your Mesh across multiple devices.

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For more information, go to Mesh.com

For more Live Mesh coverage:
- Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10
- Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture
- Read the transcript and grab the audio from Jon Udell's perspective series.

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zian

I'm getting a 'System.OutOfMemoryException' at Ch 10.

jeffsand

We're fixing that right now, a problem with one of our node. You can see the video here, right now.

Update: All is well, the cool c10 demo is now at the normal location.

intelman

Damnit, Firefox 3, Silverlight...

Watching it in WMP right now though, I'm feeling better with Ray Ozzie at the helm with Microsoft.

As for Mesh, I can't wait!! This is something that might take off with Microsoft.

I have high expectations for this new Microsoft.

My concern how is that we have a lot of remote desktop services from Microsoft.

Windows Meeting Space, Windows SharedView, Mesh...

Does the folder syncing traverse firewalls at full speed?

MadRaven

Live Mesh really looks like a great product.
But it really only creates confusion since there are already a bunch of similar MS techs like FolderShare, Folder Sharing in Messenger, SkyDrive, Meeting Space, Remote Desktop, etc.

Same thing as on the communication front with a bunch of mail clients, IM clients etc.

Shame that these aren't integrated into a single offering so even inexperienced users could use it. Also even as a power user I getting fed up with having to install many similar apps for a single company just because neither has the full featureset I need.

From outside it really looks like Microsoft was some sort of sports league and each team inside is competing instead of cooperating.

madu

I need some help here. All of a sudden my video streams refuse to work coming from the server at: mms://mschnlnine.wmod.linwd.net ...

On the other hand, videos from: mms://wm.microsoft.com/ ..... still work as expected, both through the Silverlight player and Windows Media player.

I regularly watch channel 9 videos and the majority come from the former server. Now I cant watch because of this problem.

I've tried everything. Uninstalled and re-installed Silverlight ; went through all the settings of WMP and IE 6 (by the way, I use Win XP SP2), and I am still stomped.

What could this be? Up until a few days ago, everything was fine.

Madu

Bas

MadRaven wrote:

But it really only creates confusion since there are already a bunch of similar MS techs like FolderShare, Folder Sharing in Messenger, SkyDrive, Meeting Space, Remote Desktop, etc.

Same thing as on the communication front with a bunch of mail clients, IM clients etc.

I won't be able to watch the video until I get home in a couple of hours, so maybe this was answered, but yeah, this is what I've been wondering too. Will FolderShare, folder sharing (hee), SkyDrive et cetera eventually all be replaced by Live Mesh? Because currently we have a bunch of services that all do a little bit of what Mesh does, but they don't work together.

Adding Mesh on top of that will be even more confusing. If Mesh does what all these other tools do, and it does it well, will those other tools get phased out, to avoid confusion and provide a more integrated experience?

RichardRudek

I don't know why Dan doesn't post the low res link, [but here it is] 131.6MB.

I right-click then choose save as file.

Apogeum

Ray Ozzie is a terrible speaker, I cant sit to any of his talks (including this one). It is like staring at a blank wall. There is noise, but no content.

Live Mesh, I am sorry but sticking wings to a fish (and giving him a shiny label), wont make him fly. (apple doesn't fly, their users just believe it does... please dont go there!)

I miss Bill Gates already. Putting a computer on every desk! Yeah!
And now: Hey, we are copying your files on any server! Ah, and back again!

Please give this job, ahm this title, to Scott Guthrie, just because he has no time for big pointless speeches, doesn't mean he doesn't fit the role, it means he is working his behind off for REAL innovation.

Also: He can talk! (hope he does at PDC)

DukeNukem

Can you add a Windows Live SkyDrive to be a device?

And why should we need to upload everything to keep it in sync. What If I happen to be on the same lan as the other computer ?

This is belgium, we have bandwith limits (12GB a month)