As with most core strategies at Microsoft, Live Mesh has a strong platform angle.

At the Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled Live Mesh, a cloud service for synchronizing files, folders, and Web-delivered content, such as news feeds, across multiple devices.

Along with giving people access to a test version, the company offered a tech preview that will grant developers to access the Mesh APIs to write Web applications with the data-syncing features.

People have long stated Microsoft doesn’t “get” the Web or is too tied to its desktop heritage. Well, part of the Computer legacy is the hard drive, as in “your information.”

With Ray Ozzie as chief software architect, Microsoft is tackling one of the trickiest computing problems of the day: data.

(Credit: CNET News.com)

In the Live Mesh blog, Microsoft general manager Amit Mital laid out the guiding principles for developers:

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