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Where is the P2P Story in Microsoft’s Mesh Technology?
The Microsoft Mesh project is ambitious but in my mind also lacking the real desktop sha-bam that we expect from Microsoft. Where Ray Ozzie delivered an amazing P2P story with the groove platform, Mesh feels like yet another desktop to cloud file synchonization service.
What would have really knocked my socks off would have been a mixed mode web 2.0 synchonization story and a powerful P2P play which would have enabled desktops to work together over adhock wired and wireless networks. How often are we in a conference room and we are trying to exchange files which might be stored on a web site, but oops we don’t have a connection. However, a bit of P2P magic over an adhoc P2P network would solve it. Now that is a Mesh story.
Perhaps, the real play is coming, with a true free Groove collaboration and Mesh integrated vision. For now, it sounds like just another synchonization service.
