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Leave it to Microsoft to turn an upgrade from Beta to Full Release a freaking nightmare. Basically Live Mesh Beta is being shut down and everything you have syncing on the Live Mesh servers will be deleted as of 3/31/2011, yah a week from now. To go with the new version it isn’t a simple upgrade but rather a ridiculous process involving saving all your files, uninstalling Live Mesh Beta, reinstalling Windows Live Mesh and then re-syncing everything.

Dear Microsoft

Have you ever heard of an Upgrade button?

Sincerely

@professor

Dear Live Mesh beta participant,

You’re receiving this message because you used the Live Mesh beta from Microsoft. On March 31, 2011, the beta of Live Mesh will end, and the Live Mesh beta will stop working. After March 31, you won’t be able to access any files stored online in your Live Desktop or connect to your PCs remotely using the Live Mesh software. Microsoft will not be able to help you retrieve any files you have stored online after this date. Your files will also stop syncing between your computers and your Live Mesh online storage. Please read below for actions we recommend you take.

With the new release of Windows Live services, we’ve made a series of changes and improvements across the products. We realize they will have an impact on you and we want to make that as easy as possible for you. We thank you for your continued support of Windows Live services.

Why is this happening?
To deliver a better product for all our customers, we combined several services into a new product called Windows Live Mesh. Windows Live Mesh has several performance and reliability improvements compared to the Live Mesh beta, and with Windows Live Mesh, you can also sync your program settings for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Learn more.

What you need to do before Live Mesh beta shuts down
To prevent loss of any of your files, please sync all files from your Live Desktop so that you have them on your computer when the Live Mesh beta service is shutdown. To do this, follow these steps:
On your Live Desktop, right-click any Live Mesh folders not yet synced with your computer, and then click Sync with this computer. Make sure all the folders on your Live Desktop have desktop shortcuts.
Select where you want each folder to sync, and then click OK. If a folder has a lot of files, this might take a while. Open each folder and make sure all the files are downloaded.

What you can do moving forward
If you enjoyed the functionality of Live Mesh, we encourage you to install the new Windows Live Mesh. You will first need to uninstall the Live Mesh beta, and then go to http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh to get the latest version of Windows Live Mesh. Before you do this, note the folders that you’re syncing on each computer and if they’re shared with anyone. After you download Windows Live Mesh, you can set up these folders to sync again. Learn more about how to upgrade

Thank you for participating in the Live Mesh beta. We hope you choose to move to Windows Live Mesh.

Sincerely,

The Windows Live team

Okay so IBM has invested millions of dollars and thousands of hours to create a machine to play jeopardy. His name is Watson and even if he goes on the longest champion run in Jeopardy history it’ll still take years to make back the money invested.

All this being said I would rather have seen the money go to SNL writers to continue their Celebrity Jeopardy skits. God knows those skits are the most entertaining thing about Jeopardy, right?

BUCK FUTTER!!!!

I think it would be so great to go “Back to the Past” with one of these NES Game USB drives and blow my own 8 year old mind. I remember when 3 1/2 floppies became popular with 1.4 mb of space this would be as great as pulling a rabbit out of thimble.