Live Mesh, what is it?

Microsoft has just recently announced a new service called Live Mesh. But what is this service all about? The marketing text says: "Imagine all your devices--PCs, and soon Macs and mobile phones--working together to give you anywhere access to the information you care about."

This sounds nice, but what does it mean for developers? With the Live Mesh SDK, you are in the future able to develop applications that store information in a mesh (or cloud), and then this information can be shared across multiple devices and even users. Since all supported devices can access the same data, Live Mesh is a concept that aims to deliver your data "anywhere, anytime". Sounds what Citrix for example is trying to do with applications. Live Mesh is for data, and the future will show what this system can deliver.

For more information, see the Silverlight-enabled tour.