Live Mesh now available for Mac OS X

So I clicked on the link in the original post and landed on a Microsoft page with the message "The Windows Live Network is unavailable..." Oh, well. So much for dealing with a "reputable company with a longer track record".

Can someone give one example of a network-based offering from Microsoft that has ever worked well on the Mac?

I to have tried multiple cloud types of services such as .MacMobile Me, Mozy and Dropbox. I also work off of multiple PC's and Mac's and share a lot of items with others. Dropbox has performed flawlessly so far and I am seriously looking at plunking down another $99 so that I can bypass another external hard disk issue encountered recently.

I just need to wait and hopefully Apple will pay Dropbox a bunch of cash to repackage themselves as iDisk and I will be very happy.

One thing that will be a minus for Mesh is that folks will not want to deal with the Live ID and the complicated nature of this all in one ID for Microsoft. I have to use it for work but try to avoid it at home.

one other advantage of mesh over dropbox is, you can sync files just among your computers and without leaving a copy on the cloud (5gb mesh storage). so if you have 12gb music and want to sync them between computers, it'll just work as long as you exclude mesh desktop (the cloud storage) from the list of devices.

with dropbox, everything has to be synch'ed with cloud, makes it impractical for data over 2gb.

Quite ironic. The author trashes Dropbox's reputability, yet he likes MS Office for Mac. In my opinion, Cory has no reputability and is just another reason why people only come here to rag on TUAW. And I thought things would improve when Erica left.

As a long time .Mac user who has four different computers, most of which need access to the same data, Dropbox is an iDisk killer. I hesitated at spending the extra money (I outgrew the free 2G limit in a few days) for something that is supposed to be included in my .Mac service but Dropbox works so flawlessly, so easily, so reliably and, so quickly that I now would rather give up .Mac than Dropbox if I couldn't afford to keep both.

this is a REVIEW?

Agree with @Doctt.

We have been quite pessimistic about M$ Products for a long time. But this time, I think LiveMesh is a simply good service. It just works. Apart from some hiccups such as versioning or IE woes, MS put great effort in this thing.

APIs are also there. .NET developers are cheering. I dunno if you guys like iPlayer but I saw some neat synchronization there. And heard many more services are on the way, using LiveMesh.

I love Dropbox and use it everyday. It's a fantastic service. Well but, we should really give LiveMesh a try, too. =)

This article was the point at which I subscribed to TUAW. Any weblog
which considers opinion "blogging" like this to be acceptable is worth
my time.

I can't sign up for Live Mesh. Says its wants more info from me, sends me to my WindowsLive page, but there is nothing to change. Oh, and it tells me to use IE 6 or higher.

THIS is why I use dropbox. It just works, on mac or PC, within seconds of downloading it.

Dropbox seems pretty damn nice and if it is running on S3, I'd take that over Microsoft any day.

Microsoft offerings have always been half-baked on the Mac. Dropbox seems very mac friendly.