Thanks for the comments. Good to know that a reboot is not always required, though I think I’ve always needed one. I realise it depends on what files are in use. But the MOE seems a pretty heavyweight add-on.

Mobile exists but I believe you still need a link with an invitation code, and of course only a subset of Windows Mobile models are supported.

Live sync is entangled with Live Essentials which doesn’t help.

I agree with your comments about getting things done. Another factor is that the “mainly for Windows” perspective really gets in the way for something like this which should be cross-platform.

Tim

That aside I find it odd that they don’t evolve the service. They now integrate into live sync but dump the live desktop, which I think was a great idea, and also the “sidebar” on explorer whenever you were in a live mesh folder. Adding to that live sync and live mesh won’t even be able to be installed at the same time on the same computer, highly annoying.

I have said it before in your comments, but live services has alot to prove and need to get down to much shorter and tighter delivery cycles so they actually can innovate. And microsoft needs to get people in the higher exec ranks out of the way and let their real stars, their engineer, do their work.

How hard would it have been to make live mesh work across all platforms hassle free? I mean really. It should be “super easy” for a company with microsoft’s resources to pull off. But there seems to be an inherent problem with larger companies and getting things done. Computer engineering is a funny business where the productive limit on the amount of people you can involve on a given code base is insanely low. Have more than 10 people working on something usually starts slowing things down, if it gets to the point where 100 working on it, they might very well get less done (of value) than 1 person would.