Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft - Live Mesh

If you have used Folder Share, this will look pretty familiar. Live Mesh is not out yet to the public, but you can get on the invitation list...I have used Folder Share for a couple years now and absolutely love it...have used Folder Share to synchronize my One Note files on the desktop after being out in the field...with adding Silverlight this looks to be a really great user interface as well...in the meantime, Windows Live Folder Share can be found here...BD

I think this is going to be Silverlight’s big, big driver. With Silverlight 2.0 and I assume future versions, they’re trying to make it more like Windows Presentation Foundation. They’re looking to support a bigger subset of the XAML and controls that WPF has. It seems like they’re working very hard to bring the development experience and the UI possibilities of Windows to a cross-platform runtime. Why do that if you make all of your money on the operating system? Because Live Mesh is the future and you’ve got to be able to provide part of that great Windows experience (don’t laugh, I love Vista) on many platforms. Live Mesh is cool because it supports so many technologies (including Flash) so it’s very platform agnostic, but to appeal to Microsoft developers, they need to provide Microsoft technology and tools. Silverlight will be a great way to let those Microsoft developers quickly start building into the Live Mesh Ecosystem.

Mesh lets you set up a virtual desktop online, and connect different computers to it. Put any file into a Mesh folder and it automatically syncs between the online desktop and every connected computer. Select a file or folder and you can easily share its contents—photos, videos, music, documents—with any friend or family member. You can also remotely control a connected computer from the Live Mesh desktop. Right now, this works with any computer, as long as it is running Windows XP or Vista.