MrDave's (David Yack) Blog!

Today Microsoft delivered their first down payment on the vision to connect our world of devices. The idea is that all your devices should work together and sharing and collaboration should just be easy. In his keynote at Mix08, Ray Ozzie Microsoft’s new Chief Architect hinted about Live Mesh as he talked about a “device mesh”.  Read announcement here. CNEt's FAQ here. - Signup for access to the preview here. (Limited # during the first preview so hurry up!)   Watch video's to understand it here.

So before you starting thinking oh it's just Sync stuff or another SkyDrive....Look deeper and you will find a developer story too - MOE - Mesh Operating Environment which opens up a ton of developer opportunities.  See the developer demo here. 

If you gave up reading the announcement before you got to the "Platform is the core" - it highlights the guiding principles  which really highlights the software-plus-service strategy and how Live Mesh is aimed to bridge the gap that currently exists.

Think Data sync, Meets Connect anywhere + Feeds  + anywhere access

It will be interesting to kick the tires and see how it really works!  I need to turn back on UAC to install the desktop client so once I figure out which machine to try it on I will report back on first impressions.

As I said, I think this is just a down payment, as part of the bigger rollout of the S+S story - Another piece was also announced today with the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online- read the announcement here on the CRM team blog.