Microsoft recently unveiled Live Mesh, an attempt to become the new "WebOS." What is a WebOS? Its the go-to-place to run your web services that doesn't require a hard drive (i.e. think the equivalent of iTunes, Office, AIM). Instead of reading a way-too-long post on TechCrunch to figure it out, I'm going to expand on a line from CNet:
Services Are the Core of the Platform--the Live Mesh platform exposes a number of core services including some Live Services that can all be accessed using the Live Mesh API; these include Storage (online and offline), Membership, Sync, Peer-to-Peer Communication and Newsfeed
There are two key words here that did it for me: one of them is is "Sync." You can remember that far back, can't you... Microsoft Sync? That voice activated thing in Fords and Lincolns?
The other word is "Membership." I'm referring to one of Microsoft's bedfellows, Facebook.
When you put the two together, this is the vision I'm forecasting: Facebook in your car. Poke!
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UPDATE: Forgot to mention, but Live Mesh is Microsoft's attempt to consolidate (as an "operating system" usually does) the zeitgeistness like Twitter and S3. In other words, you could use S3 as your hard drive. But its really meant to counter Android and the iPhone by turning the web into your computer, so all you have to do is carry around little screens to access it (see: "web enabled device") Thus a mobile phone is ancient history, becoming instead a web-terminal running Skype. Ditto for your music, photos, videos, documents, calendar,...
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