Microsoft has opened the doors of its Live Mesh service so that anyone with a Windows Live ID can immediately start using it. It is only available for users in the US, but the Live Mesh team says that this restriction can easily be circumvented by setting your operating system region and language settings to EN-US:
Signing up for Live Mesh now!
The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that we have simplified the signup process for our US customers. We are doubling the upper limit of our technology preview program. Our technology preview is still limited to ensure great performance and experience for our customers. You can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No waiting list at this time!
International Customers
With Live Mesh open to more people in the US, our international friends can join in the fun early as well - with one caveat: you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US. Once you do this you will be able to immediately sign in to Live Mesh with a valid Windows Live ID. Please be aware that this may cause other applications that specifically require your native country region and language settings to encounter problems.
Previously Live Mesh was available to about 10,000 testers that had been accepted into the program a few months ago. It will be interesting to see whether Microsoft can sustain the onslaught of new accounts that will likely be created, in terms of performance and stability.
What is Live Mesh? It’s basically a file synchronization service that can keep entire folders in sync with each other across remote PC’s (Mac and mobile support coming soon). Plus you’re given 5GB of storage that is used to make files available from anywhere via a web interface. Here’s a tour of Live Mesh (requires Silverlight) for those of you wanting to know more about how it works.
Live Mesh Homepage [via LiveSide]
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Have to join the waiting list, even after changing the region
Wonder how good it is compared to dropbox.
I haven’t actually tried it myself, but one thing it doesn’t seem to have that Dropbox does is revision management. That way you can always get access to an older version of a file.
If there’s a way to go around the restriction to International Users accepted and promoted by Microsoft, then why place the restriction in the first place. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
Lock a door and then give the key to the guy outside?
I think it’s because they currently have the application setup for the English language, but plan to roll out other languages in the future. If you’re using an unsupported language the software probably wouldn’t display any text on buttons/settings and whatnot since your language is not included with the download. This really just signals that they intend to offer the download in a variety of languages, but they just haven’t gotten around to creating the various language packs yet.
“you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US.”
screw that
I’m set to EN-UK (at least I’d better be) but it let me on fine. Though I question why a modern Microsoft product, made to look like Vista, has to turn Aero off to run. Is it just so it can stand out all Vista like amongst the poor man’s Aero that is Basic, or are they just retarded?
Edit: killing dwm.exe turned my PC back into the real thing again, loading Mesh now to see if it degrades me again…
OK, so no screw up this time, that’s odd. Guess I should try the program out now, install Silverlight for the 3rd time today and see if it actually recognises it this time.
It didn’t disable Aero for me, so that’s weird.