Live Mesh is a platform and platform experience (think Win32 for platform, explorer.exe for platform experience) meant to serve as a foundation for next generation software + services apps. We expect that over time Live Mesh will be a great ingredient technology that helps Windows Live (and Office Live, Zune, etc.) enhance their scenarios and deliver more connected, personalized experiences across devices. Our platform should also be the foundation for 3rd parties to develop their own applications and scenarios that customers can choose to integrate into their mesh computing experience. Of course, right now we're just at the Tech Preview stage, so there is a lot more still to come.
That is perhaps only a partial answer to your question, but if I understood what was motivating your question I think that seeing Live Mesh as a platform and platform experience speaks to the broad difference between Live Mesh and individual Windows components. I hope that is somewhat helpful. :)
Live Mesh is a platform and platform experience (think Win32 for platform, explorer.exe for platform experience) meant to serve as a foundation for next generation software + services apps. We expect that over time Live Mesh will be a great ingredient technology that helps Windows Live (and Office Live, Zune, etc.) enhance their scenarios and deliver more connected, personalized experiences across devices. Our platform should also be the foundation for 3rd parties to develop their own applications and scenarios that customers can choose to integrate into their mesh computing experience. Of course, right now we're just at the Tech Preview stage, so there is a lot more still to come.
That is perhaps only a partial answer to your question, but if I understood what was motivating your question I think that seeing Live Mesh as a platform and platform experience speaks to the broad difference between Live Mesh and individual Windows components. I hope that is somewhat helpful. :)
To my knowledge, very little - but it integrates them, and makes them easier to use for the average user. (and i just got beat by the moderator by a second :p) Ben pretty much sums up the whole platform...
Andy M
Edited byam01264Friday, May 23, 2008 7:55 PMRefining Argument
As far as the Remote Desktop bit goes, the Mesh version doesn't change the target machine's resolution by default.
So if you're going from a 1920x1200 desktop to a 1280x800 laptop or vice versa, you don't have to go resizing and moving windows back into place later on.
