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Microsoft Syncs Phone, PC Data with 'Live Mesh'

Posted Apr 23, 08 12:10 PM CDT in Technology 

(Newser) – Microsoft is testing a new product that will allow users to link data across multiple electronic devices through the internet—so the picture you took on your phone can be in the digital picture frame in your home within minutes. It’s a big step for Microsoft, which until now has resisted the “cloud computing” movement, Reuters reports.

Cloud computing is the idea of computing and storing documents online, rather than on any particular device. Until now, Microsoft has seen the philosophy, championed by companies like Google, as a threat to its bread-and-butter software business. “This is exciting because it has as much to do with who is doing it as what Microsoft is doing,” said one analyst.

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Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, speaks at the 2008 MVP Global Summit event in Seattle on Thursday, April 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kevin P. Casey)
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Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, speaks at the 2008 MVP Global Summit event in Seattle, Thursday, April 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kevin P. Casey)
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