From Peter Bright‘s Ars Technica piece titled Windows Live Sync is frustratingly bad. It could be awesome.

It’s fair to say that Microsoft’s product offerings are something of a mess. Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh overlap (the difference being that the former is PC-to-PC, the latter is PC-to-cloud), Live Mesh and My Phone overlap (they’re both device-to-cloud), and SkyDrive, Live Mesh, and My Phone all overlap (they all incorporate their own cloud storage).

At least with the latest beta they’ve partially fixed the problem by combining Live Mesh functionality into Live Sync and eliminating Live Mesh.

The new Live Sync offers the same PC-to-PC sharing that it’s always done, but it adds to this the ability to sync to SkyDrive. Live Mesh’s remote access features have also been rolled into the Windows Live Sync product. With Live Sync subsuming both remote access and cloud sync features, Live Mesh is no more.