Cloud - Web and Service Cloud

ZDNet reports that Microsoft officially dropped a beta of Live Mesh to a familiar 10,000 developers, of which many slots were taken by Microsoft employees themselves who are programmers annoyingly referred to as ’softies’.

The service or system built on another term called Horizon is their competitor to Amazon’s AWS platform and Google App Engine as well as many other emerging companies and platforms offering scalable cloud based services.

From the looks of the schematics and diagrams it appears closer to a Google App Engine hosted service rather than a componentized Amazon model.