{"id":1271,"date":"2008-11-05T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/windows-live-foldershare-an-example-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-platform-thats-here-to-use-today.htm"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:53:42","slug":"windows-live-foldershare-an-example-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-platform-thats-here-to-use-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/windows-live-foldershare-an-example-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-platform-thats-here-to-use-today.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live FolderShare &#8211; an example of Microsoft&#8217;s cloud computing platform that&#8217;s here to use today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started off writing this post on the train, as the stacation (taking a break from work but staying at home) part of last week became the vacation part (a few days by the seaside with my wife and sons &#8211; the fact that I woke up to snow in Buckinghamshire didn&#8217;t seem to put the boys off wanting to build sandcastles in Dorset&#8230; even with their winter coats on).<\/p>\n<p>The point of this is that I wanted to use the time on the train to good effect &#8211; and that meant catching up on my writing.  Despite having spent a few days decommissioning my old file server in favour of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/netgear-readynas-low-cost-raid-storage-for-the-consumer.htm\">a new NAS box<\/a>, I still have a certain amount of local data that I need to access &#8211; spread across multiple Windows and Macintosh PCs.  This is where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/cloud-computing-takes-centre-stage-with-windows-azure.htm\">Microsoft&#8217;s web services platform<\/a> comes in.  I&#8217;ve been using the Live Mesh CTP for a while now, but the current version of Mesh is just a starting point and there is another Live service in beta that I&#8217;m using here &#8211; Windows Live FolderShare.<\/p>\n<p>FolderShare is a web service for distributed folders across multiple devices &#8211; either personal or shared folders.  If you&#8217;ve used Windows Live SkyDrive as file storage in the cloud, then imagine if that data was hosted on your PCs (phones, and other devices) rather than in cyberspace &#8211; and replicated automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, I expect to see FolderShare move into Live Mesh and, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/pc-phone-and-web-how-microsoft-plans-to-build-the-next-generation-of-user-experiences.htm\">my coverage of the recent PDC keynote<\/a>, I wrote about how:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/pc-phone-and-web-how-microsoft-plans-to-build-the-next-generation-of-user-experiences.htm\"><p>Live Mesh bridges [islands of information] with a core synchronisation concept but Mesh is just the tip of the iceberg and is now a key component of Live Services to allow apps and websites to connect users, devices, applications and to provide data synchronisation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My personal file data may not be the scale of enterprise service Microsoft plans for Windows Azure but Windows Live FolderShare does nicely demonstrate the concept in a way that most of us can appreciate.  Here I am, creating content on the train using my Macintosh PC and I know that, when I hook up to a network, FolderShare will sync this (via Windows Live Services) to people\/devices that I want to share the data with &#8211; for example my Windows PC in the home office.  Then, whichever device I&#8217;m using, I can continue my work without worrying about where the master copy is.  Add a phone into the mix and one would expect me to be able to access that data wherever I am as well as creating additional content &#8211; for example photos, or location specific data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewebpitch.com\/microsoft\/cloud-computing-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts\/\">Jasdev Dhaliwal has an interesting article about Microsoft&#8217;s cloud computing announcements over at the Web Pitch<\/a>.  Jas&#8217; post includes: Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Overnight Success&#8221; video which talks about the greater sum of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/softwareplusservices\/\">software plus services<\/a> &#8220;moving beyond devices and across borders to capture the imagination of the world&#8230; a world where the richness of software and the ubiquity of services are rapidly converging&#8221;; a BBC interview with Ray Ozzie where he talks about how it has become burdensome to manage the computer we&#8217;ve got at work, the computer we have in the den, childrens&#8217; PCs, a cellphone with contacts, photos and information, cable boxes with recorded movies and how &#8220;Windows in the sky&#8221; can bring all of those devices together and make it easier to manage &#8211; more than just applications in the cloud but a total computing infrastructure; another BBC film where Rory Cellan-Jones visits one of Microsoft&#8217;s vast datacentres; and finally Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Synchronizing Life&#8221; video where a Mum takes a picture of a child at play using her mobile phone and that picture appears on a display many miles away in Dad&#8217;s office, on his PC, on his Mac, and how the Live Mesh extends to his media player, phone, into the car and to the childrens&#8217; games console.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lFpwzg-AP_Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I started this post on the train, using a Mac. Now I&#8217;m ending it in the office, on a Windows PC &#8211; and I haven&#8217;t had to think about which copy of the data is current &#8211; it just works.  That&#8217;s what connected synchronicity is about &#8211; it&#8217;s not about uploading everything I do to some website but about a mesh of devices working together to make my local data available globally&#8230; synchronising my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started off writing this post on the train, as the stacation (taking a break from work but staying at home) part of last week became the vacation part (a few days by the seaside with my wife and sons &#8211; the fact that I woke up to snow in Buckinghamshire didn&#8217;t seem to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/windows-live-foldershare-an-example-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-platform-thats-here-to-use-today.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Live FolderShare &#8211; an example of Microsoft&#8217;s cloud computing platform that&#8217;s here to use today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[176,88,134],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-azure","tag-windows-live","tag-web-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows Live FolderShare - an example of Microsoft&#039;s cloud computing platform that&#039;s here to use today  - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/windows-live-foldershare-an-example-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-platform-thats-here-to-use-today.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Live FolderShare - an example of Microsoft&#039;s cloud computing platform that&#039;s here to use today  - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I started off writing this post on the train, as the stacation (taking a break from work but staying at home) part of last week became the vacation part (a few days by the seaside with my wife and sons &#8211; 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