Well, I finally got my Live Mesh invitation! I signed up to the waiting list a couple of weeks ago, so it's not been that long actually. After reading several articles and blog posts about Live Mesh, it's cool to be able to try it out. I must say that, so far, it's very impressive. The installation and set up, on a Vista Ultimate laptop, went without a hitch and I'm already happily synchronising away. The integration with Vista is so seamless that I've found myself looking at a meshed up folder and haven't been able to work out if I'm looking at the online version or the local version – they look identical until you look at the file path.

So it's goodbye to Groove 2007, which I'd been using to synchronise files between machines. I always felt that Groove was a bit of overkill for what I needed anyway and the fact that there is no 64 bit support really was the final nail in the coffin.

Also, I must admit that I still haven't got my head around all the stuff that Live Mesh can do. I do know that the folder synchronisation and the online storage is really just an example of what the platform is capable of. I can't wait until the mobile version comes out. I know a lot of people knock Microsoft, but you've got to hand it to them, they keep on churning out great software at a staggering rate.