Taking a Leave from Mesh

Live Mesh logo I’ve been dabbling with Microsoft’s Live Mesh since last April. Just last month I was debating between using Mesh or Dropbox for my online storage needs. It was close, but at the time I chose Mesh.

Today I decided that I’m ready to be done with Mesh for a while. I kept hoping to get the Remote Desktop aspects of it working better but so far no luck. Not for lack of trying and the support folks have been pretty responsive. But, at the end of the day, I still can’t use the built-in remote desktop to control the machine I want to control.

Frankly, the memory usage is a bit steep. Granted, there’s a lot going on, but since I’m not getting all the features in action, I really don’t need so much.

Box.net logo I was going to switch back to box.net for my online storage needs, but I hit their 50MB/file limit right away on some large PDFs.

At that point I was going to sign up for one of the paid plans but I have to be honest and say that I found the pricing just a bit too much for how much I’d use it. I feel cheap and dirty admitting that, but there you go…

Dropbox logo Back to Dropbox I went. It just works and the desktop client is quite functional. I’m also happy to see the Linux version is in alpha.

I’m very excited about mesh’s roadmap and definitely can’t wait for the integration with Windows Mobile. When more features come I’ll give it another try.

Oh — I have Dropbox invites if interested. Just leave a comment below.

Possibly Related posts:

  1. Windows Live Mesh or DropBox?
  2. Microsoft Mesh Beta: First Look
  3. More on Mesh and Remote Desktop
  4. Dropbox Launches
  5. Moving Dropbox


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