At the Web 2.0 conference, Microsoft is launching Live Mesh, which lets you connect all your computers (work, home, laptop etc) in your own Mesh and then use them remotely. Each computer appears as a Mesh folder on your desktop, and you connect to them via a browser. Any data you put in a Mesh folder (on your Mesh desktop) is automatically synchronized across all your machines, including a "virtual device" in the cloud that you can access from anywhere. You can add other users to a Mesh folder, to share data, by sending them a link in an email. At the moment, there's a 5GB limit on what you can store in the cloud.
This is a Live service so you can expect it to work with other Live suite services, including the Live ID sign-on, formerly Passport, Live Mail and Microsoft Connect. It's not just SkyDrive.
At the moment it's Windows only, but Mac and mobile phone Mesh software is being developed.
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