About an hour ago I received an invitation from Microsoft Connect to try out Live Mesh. Having watched the preview videos on Channel 9, I was looking forward to this opportunity for some time, so I immediately downloaded and tried to install it.

About a second later I was greeted with the following: 

Apparently, Live Mesh client requires UAC to be switched on during installation and operation. This is due to a technical constraint imposed by the COM layer in Vista and should be fixed in the next beta release.

There is a post on the Live Mesh Blog that provides some more information.

Via Laughing Squid:

Update: It looks like the video has been pulled from the site.

I was curious to see what all the buzz is about, so I’ve signed up.

You can “follow” me @ http://twitter.com/arnie_z

If you’re a developer, here are some people you might want to “follow”:

• Scott Hanselman (http://twitter.com/shanselman)
• Jeff Atwood (http://twitter.com/codinghorror)
• Rob Conery (http://twitter.com/robconery)
• Jeff Sandquist (http://twitter.com/jeffsand)
• Jon Galloway (http://twitter.com/jongalloway)
• Phil Haack (http://twitter.com/haacked)
• Max Pool (http://twitter.com/mpool)
• Dare Obasanjo (http://twitter.com/Carnage4Life)
• Dan Fernandez (http://twitter.com/danielfe)

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I have just unsubscribed from the Microsoft Watch rss feed. Want to know why? Read these two articles and you’ll see:

• Unimpressed by Windows Media Player 11
• Is Vista Ready? Not For Me

Makes you wonder: “What the hell were those guys thinking when they were writing those articles?”. Was THAT supposed to be a review? Felt more like an amateur blog post.

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