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For another view on this process, see Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html

This blog entry is a bad one. Synchronization is a real problem. Dropbox and others are doing it quite well and will benefit from it. Microsoft's solution was subpar, but it is not a problem misidentification issue at all.

Cannot agree more with you on this. When I read this, Dropbox is the first thing which came to my mind.

"When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not."

Live Mesh also still exists - it became the SkyDrive sync client which is now built into Windows.

It is not Mesh at all.

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