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Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh

Posted by Sumeeth Evans August 28, 2010 2:56 PM with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Windows Live

In June, we announced that as part of Windows Live Essentials beta, we brought together two programs, Windows Live Sync and the Live Mesh beta, into one: Windows Live Sync beta. We focused on four things with our beta release:

Making it easy to access the PCs you use from anywhere
Getting your files and folders on the PCs you use regularly
Giving you enough space to sync your most important files and folders to the cloud
Providing simple document collaboration over the web using SkyDrive

Renaming Windows Live Sync to Windows Live Mesh
In our beta release, we brought the best of Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh together. With the addition of remote access and cloud storage, we understand that the new program does more than sync files. So following the beta period, we’ll be using the name Windows Live Mesh going forward, which we feel best reflects our broader goal of allowing you to access your stuff across your devices.

More cloud storage
We continue to see that the primary way customers are syncing files is between their different PCs (or Macs). And we will continue to make it easy to sync virtually unlimited amounts of data between your PCs. When syncing files to the cloud, beta participants get 2 GB of synced cloud storage. Only 2% of these participants are using more than 1.5 GB. However, Live Mesh offers 5 GB, and while only a small number of Live Mesh customers use all their space, we want to ease migration and increase the online storage limit from 2 GB to 5 GB.