Live Mesh also says goodbye on February 13

Live Mesh is a system born at the beginning of SkyDrive – storage and management of information in the Microsoft Cloud -, which performs local data synchronization with a repository similar to but separate from SkyDrive, as well as other added services such as remote access to a computer.

In the cleanup that the multinational is carrying out, with its online services such as making official that Skype absorbs Windows Live Messenger, it has sent an email to all users who still persist or have an account open in the Live Mesh service, where it indicates the end of the service on February 13.

Why is this happening?

At this time, 40% of Mesh customers are actively using SkyDrive Based on positive feedback received by MS and due to As people increasingly place a premium on improving personal cloud storage, it makes sense to merge SkyDrive and Mesh into a single product for anytime, anywhere access to files.

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As a result, Mesh will retire on February 13, 2013 After this date, some Mesh features, such as remote desktop and peer-to-peer synchronization will no longer be available. In addition, all data in the Mesh cloud, called Mesh sync storage or SkyDrive sync storage, will be deleted. Folders you&39;ve synced with Mesh will stop syncing, and you won&39;t be able to connect to your computers remotely through Mesh."

Save copies of your files in the Mesh cloud

Before February 13, 2013, make sure you save any files stored in the Mesh cloud on your computer that you want to keep . If you still sync files between your computer and the Mesh cloud, the latest versions of your files will already be on your computer. But if you've stopped syncing them on your computer, or if you've uninstalled Mesh, follow these steps to access your files:

• Go to the Devices website.
• Click SkyDrive Synced Storage.
• Click a folder to view its contents.
• Click each file to download it.

To continue to remotely access your files and programs when Mesh is no longer available, Microsoft recommends using the tool included with all operating systems from Windows XP, Remote Desktop Connection.Or a program called LogMeInPro, which has a limited free version.

I think Microsoft has made the right decision and one might ask why it has taken so long to take matters by the horns and get rid of one of the services least understood by Skydrive users.

Current users of Live Mesh, I am sure that will be much more satisfied with the services of SkyDrive or any other repository of current Cloud files.

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