Dear Microsoft: Please don't take away my Live Mesh.Microsoft replaces Live Mesh with SkyDrive in Windows bundle.Microsoft: Come next February, Live Mesh will be dead.Instead, you have to use the Remote Desktop application built into Windows. SkyDrive doesn't provide remote desktop capabilities.
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Live Mesh offers a remote desktop feature so you can access another PC in your Live Mesh network. Office users would have to migrate to Office 2013 to gain the same benefit. Live Mesh allows you to synchronize styles, templates, and other settings from Microsoft Office. SkyDrive forces you to store your files in the cloud to sync them. Live Mesh offers peer-to-peer syncing, so you don't have to store your files online to sync them among different devices. In other cases, moving entire folders may be more problematic. After I moved my Word document and Excel spreadsheet folders, I simply opened Word and Excel and changed the default save file locations. In some cases, that may not pose a problem. SkyDrive forces you to move your synchronized folders so they become subfolders of SkyDrive. Live Mesh lets you synchronize any folder on your computer regardless of its location.
Xmarks is actually a better option since it can sync favorites and bookmarks across a variety of different browsers. Instead, you need to use a third-party tool such as Xmarks. Live Mesh lets you synchronize your Internet Explorer favorites among different computers. For example, you can access your SkyDrive files from virtually any computer or mobile device equipped with the SkyDrive application.īut in other ways, SkyDrive falls short when compared with Live Mesh. SkyDrive does offer some advantages over Live Mesh. So, does SkyDrive provide all of the features of Live Mesh. Those files are backed up to SkyDrive and also synced among my three computers. On each one, I included folders for my Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and a few other file folders. I have one desktop and two laptops running SkyDrive. You can now repeat this process for any other computers you want to synchronize with SkyDrive. SkyDrive Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET
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