Ozzie’s already starting to buck trends at Microsoft. This week, Microsoft updated the Live Mesh “technical preview” with some bug fixes and feature fixes. If you didn’t know, Live Mesh up until now required UAC be enabled in order for Live Mesh to install and operate. Unless you just came back from a long trip in deep space, you know that UAC is one of the most maligned aspects of Windows Vista. I call UAC, User Annoyance Catastrophe.
Good news. The latest version of Live Mesh no longer requires UAC be enabled if you have Vista SP1 installed. Yeah! It never made sense in the first place that Live Mesh would require UAC be running. Maybe that was one of those design-by-committee situations. I don’t know. All I know is it’s gone as a Live Mesh requirement.
The rest of the changes to Live Mesh were bug fixes. I hope we see some more functionality added to Live Mesh soon. The Live Mesh web interface indicates support for the Mac and mobile devices are in the works. What else does Ozzie have up his sleeve? Inquiring minds, like mine, want to know.
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