Microsoft Joins Cloud Computing Race At Back Of Pack With Live Mesh

Microsoft is getting into the game. Now let's try to sort all the players out. Here is a cool writeup by Lane R Ellis .

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, the world's largest traditional software company, has begun testing a so-called cloud computing Web-oriented software platform, called Live Mesh, that combines a person's digital information such as pictures, music and application documents, and makes them manageable online, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The two-way file synchronization platform aims to ease access to data stored across computers and mobile devices, and represents a sea change of sorts for Microsoft, which has previously resisted the growing trend towards information hosted primarily on the Web. Read More