Microsoft wants to go 2.0 at a time of great turbulence and potential change in the web industry.

Live Mesh is more than two years in the making by Microsoft and is a combination that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices, if their are using windows.

Live Mesh is open to developers (not just .Net/Silverligth). It’s going to be cross-platform and cross-browser...

It will bebased on standard protocols and feeds — HTTP, RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON and FeedSync.... [read more from Mary Jo Foley]

Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Live Mesh Wait List Page

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