Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more countries
Published: 19 Aug 2008 11:14 BST
Microsoft's Live Mesh hasn't officially expanded to include Macs just yet, but the software maker has said that people in more countries can now take part in the service without having to wait for an invitation.
In a blog posting, Microsoft announced that people in Canada, India and Ireland can now join the service. Microsoft had already opened the service up in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Live Mesh is intended to be a service that, over time, allows cloud-based applications to have desktop components and takes desktop applications into the cloud, as well as allowing synchronisation among many different devices. For now, however, Live Mesh is primarily a means of synchronising data across multiple computers.
Several times a link has popped up on Microsoft's site for an early Mac version of the Live Mesh client, although Microsoft has promptly taken down the public links.
Although people in Canada, India and Ireland don't need an invite, Microsoft said that there is still a cap for the number of users in each region. The company is expected to broaden testing of Live Mesh ahead of its Professional Developers Conference in October, with the service expected to expand to include new features at that point.
Credit: Microsoft Live Mesh open to more from CNET News
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