Mary Jo Foley : How would Microsoft Live Mesh mesh with Yahoo’s Y! OS?

How would Microsoft Live Mesh mesh with Yahoo’s Y! OS? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com: "While it’s still premature to be trying to map how Microsoft and Yahoo assets will align if and when Microsoft ends up taking over Yahoo, the Web-services development arena is likely to be one area where the two vendors’ offerings look increasingly unlikely to mesh.

At the Web 2.0 Expo this week, Microsoft unveiled Live Mesh, its Software+Services platform for making its software and services more collaborative and synchronized. At the same show, on April 24, Microsoft takeover target Yahoo elaborated on its vision for its own Web-centric collaboration platform.

“We’re rewiring yahoo from inside out to create a development platform at Yahoo that will literally open all (our) assets to developers in a way we have never done before,” said Yahoo Chief Technology Ari Balogh...

At its heart, Live Mesh is a platform, not just a service. (And it sounds like there’s going to be some connection between the Windows Live Developer platform and Live Mesh — but something Microsoft won’t discuss for a few more months.) And Y! OS Yahoo’s next-gen services platform, is trying to solve a number of the same collaboration/sharing problems as Live Mesh — but in a completely different way. Meshing these two platforms could be a real mess, I’d think.