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A common reaction that I seem to be reading is that MESH is Microsoft's admission that everything will move to the Web - data, apps etc. What I think a lot of people fail to get is that MESH is about giving users the best of both world's: powerful applications running on PC's or Mac's or phones or set-top boxes or XBOX's or PS3's or any other device; connecting all of those applications over the Web and synchronizing data between them. If this works we'll have all of the benefits of local processing and storage PLUS the benefits of anywhere access to data. Applications should be able to roam with the user and adapt ot the devide the user us currently using. If I'm using my PC I should get all that goes with that; hardware acceleration, access to local file system; direct access to the CPU etc. If I'm on a dumb terminal (aka a Web browser) I'll get a "good enough" version that lacks some of the power that I'll get on the node. If this works we won't be doomed to a world of least common denominator - applications built using AJAX or Flash or even Silverlight that don't use the power of the node. I want to have my cake and eat it too and it's ideas like this that MIGHT make it possible. As always, the proof will be in the pudding.
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