Live Mesh – Now open to everyone (who have a Windows Live ID and are in the US) [Update: Well not really “to everyone”]

LiveSide - News blog - Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open

Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody elsewhere in the world willing/able to adjust their OS’es region and language setting to EN-US. The announcement has been made on the Live Mesh Forum:

Live Mesh is now openly available to anyone in the U.S.

The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the U.S. can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No sign up needed to participate!

International Customers

With Live Mesh open to anyone in the US, our international friends can join in the fun early as well - with one caveat: you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US. Once you do this you will be able to immediately sign in to Live Mesh with a valid Windows Live ID. Please be aware that this may cause other applications that specifically require your native country region and language settings to encounter problems.

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I’m really digging Mesh and can’t wait to get my hands on the SDK (and see all the goodness about it a PDC…)

How am I using it today, you ask?

a) IE Favorites Sync

It works great as a way to keep my IE favorites sync’ed between my primary machines.

b) WLW Text Templates – Text Snips Sync

My WLW Text Template plugin saves all the templates as individual XML files (because I wanted to one day be able to sync/copy them between different machines easily). So using Mesh to sync them was drop dead easy. And now all my templates are sync’ed on all the machines I use WLW on. That’s cool!  :)

c) Misc stuff I want to sync between my different machines

Normal file sync stuff… Notes, etc.

(via Ed Bott's Windows Expertise - Live Mesh is now open to all)

Update #1: 7/16/2008 @ 6:00PM PDT:

LiveSide - News blog - Live Mesh Is Open, But With A Cap?

“We previously reported that Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open. Well it is according to the Live Mesh Forum Announcement, but with a possible cap by the looks of it! We apparently created quite a stir in the blogosphere (thanks for the cheer Angus), but also for the Live Mesh Team: 

Our forum announcement from yesterday got a lot of people talking. We just updated the forum post to clarify exactly what's going on, but I want to explain here as well.  This week we did two things:

1. Doubled the maximum number of users we'll allow to access the Live Mesh Technology Preview.
2. Simplified the Tech Preview sign-up process.  We've removed the requirement to sign up via Microsoft Connect, so that instead you can sign up directly from www.mesh.com.

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Okay, so it’s kind of, sort of open to everyone now… In any case, it’s easier to get in than it was before! (but hurry if you want now ;)