Will Microsoft connect their Live Mesh to our Open Mesh?
I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh. The full title of this Appendix is “Will Microsoft connect their Live Mesh to our Open Mesh and what about the rest of Microsoft?”
So here is Appendix - C
Live Mesh totally rocks and it’ll probably become a key element of our open mesh. It’ll gateway us to mobile, car, living room, game machines.
Dare Obasanjo and Angus Logan are proving that a smart, focused MS can play open just as good as the rest of them. From the Live.com world MS is setting standards for what mainstream open will look like. Game kids, parents in cars, kiosks in malls, churches, local government and the family in the living room are MS’s users. We need to mesh into them.
Kim Cameron delivered what he promised and Ray Ozzie is five years out ahead.
Live Mesh’s greatest dangers are MS itself. What’s not clear is how the Live Mesh will connect into Facebook, but the power of a $50B warchest will keep MS in this game.
Watching MS play open is fun - cause it’s been a long time coming.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I hope you’re getting someone to redesign these for the book — they look like ass!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:16 am
MS’ Live Mesh totally delivers the goods.
Yet again, Ray Ozzie proves that a small, focused group of insanely smart people can run circles around much larger efforts.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:57 am
We’re open baby!
-Angus
August 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
[...] Angus Logan points to an answer to my question “How will Microsoft Live Mesh connect to our Open Mesh?” [...]
August 31st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
[...] “Will Microsoft connect their Live Mesh to our Open Mesh? …[and what about the rest of Microsoft?] [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 8:20 am
[...] The Guardian’s Jack Schofield thinks that it is unlikely that Microsoft can afford to be as closed as Apple is with their application platform, because as soon as they try that, existing application sellers will cry foul (and Microsoft has a history of trouble when people start calling them a monopoly). That’s probably true, and Microsoft seems likely to also tie Windows Mobile 7 into its Live Mesh platform (our coverage), which by most accounts is proving that Microsoft knows how to be open. [...]
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
[...] Live Mesh, on the other hand, is a super application that is meant to keep all of your web devices in sync, although it looks like the term Open Mesh is already in use. [...]