We’ve heard plenty about the potential of Windows Live Mesh, but ZDNet reports that Microsoft has finally developed some real live Live Mesh apps that put the system to use. The four apps—called the MeshPack—include a collaborative crossword app, a digital bulletin board, a list sharing tool, and a collaborative group-polling tool. Unfortunately you need a PDC code to actually download any of them. [via Gizmodo]
Besides data privacy, the big consideration around moving your data to the “cloud” is what happens if servers go down. However, in a big toot for cloud computing (and their own products and interest), Google says that Gmail is more reliable than Exchange, Groupwise, and Lotus—a total of 10-15 minutes of downtime per month over the last year.
