Back in April when we did the ini­tial tech pre­view release of Live Mesh we empha­sized a vision for how the offer­ing would bring together your world of devices – a start­ing point to deliver on the data, devices, and peo­ple aspects of our vision. With this beta release we are mak­ing another sig­nif­i­cant step toward this goal. In par­tic­u­lar… with this Beta we are pro­vid­ing lim­ited avail­abil­ity of our new Mac and Win­dows Mobile 6 clients – pro­vid­ing users with a wider range of devices that can par­tic­i­pate in their mesh. Later this week as the beta rolls out, access to the Mac client will be pro­vided from the device ring expe­ri­ence at www.mesh.com. Instruc­tions for access­ing the Win­dows Mobile client will be made avail­able at this blog later in the week.

Live Mesh : Wel­come to Beta

This is the miss­ing piece (well, that and a OneNote Mobile that isn’t totally lame) of my mobile data strat­egy. I’ve been using Live Mesh for months, first just my desk­top to the web, then my desk­top through the web to my net­book and back. Just like my Exchange data, I’m secure that any­thing I change in once place will be the same every­where else I access it.

The free­dom this gives me is hard to explain. For my Exchange data, email, cal­en­dar, con­tacts and tasks, it doesn’t mat­ter if I use my desk­top, my net­book or my Treo to access any of it. I’ll use whatever’s most con­ve­nient at the time. I’m writ­ing this post on my desk­top at home because I’m get­ting ready to pod­cast, but I could just as eas­ily post it on my net­book from Chipo­tle (where there is, alas, no WiFi, so I have to tether to the EVDO con­nec­tion on my Treo), or from Mobile Pos­tIt on my Treo lying on the couch. My data is com­pletely inde­pen­dent from the device I hap­pen to use to access it. And now I’ll have the same free­dom with edit­ing doc­u­ments, spread­sheets, sync­ing music and videos to my Treo that I have with my other computers.

This is gonna be big.