Ages ago when Live Mesh was first announced I watched Ori Amiga’s demo on Channel 9 that showed not just the File sharing aspects of Mesh, but how it could be used for applications. It really impressed me and being a bit of a petrolhead one of the first apps I thought about was something …
Author archives: Tom Basham
Macs in the Mesh
After a couple of false starts the Mesh team have just released the Community Tech Preview of the Mesh client. I’ve just installed it on my Macbook here and at all works very well indeed. Once signed in you can add and sync your Meshed folders easily and get to all the same docs and …
Engineering Windows 7
I’ve just read through the latest posting over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, this time a follow up post on Desktop Search. Reading though the posts on there I keep thinking about just how good blogs can be when used properly. In that blog the product team are able to talk about not only …
Google Androids breaking Windows
Since T-Mobile launched the first Google Android based phone a few weeks ago I’ve read a few good pieces about the both the phone itself and the overall platform. I find it interesting that pretty much all the articles and blogs compare Android directly with the iPhone. From what I’ve seen it’s more an alternative …
Silverlight 2.0 Released
Today MS have released Silverlight 2.0 out of beta. Great news for me as I can now get it rolled out at work and get people trying out things like PhotoSynth and DeepZoom (we can’t really deploy betas!). I’m really looking forward to seeing how people might use them. The installation is here and is …