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Microsoft's Live team have lots of different offerings that let you synchronize your information from one place to another.

• They've got Live Mesh, for sharing 'your digital world' here there and everywhere.
• They've got Sky Drive, which lets you share files with yourself, your friends, anyone.
• There's folder share, the start up company they bought out which does more or less the same thing.
• There's something called office live workspace which lets you sync and collaborate and something else.
• There's synctoy, which uses Sync Services for File Systems. It's a kind of Robocopy on downers, with a UI.
• And then there's the grand daddy of all of these -- Ray Ozzie's offering, Groove.

WTF, Microsoft!

There's clearly one Synchronization concept that escaped them completely.
They could've gotten together as a team, shared their ideas, and realized: Oh Crap! We're all building different versions of the same thing.

Instead of creating a tangle of overlapping and unmergeable products, why didn't they synchronize their thinking and work out what problem they're trying to solve.

And then build one compelling product, that's a joy to use, and which clearly solves that problem.

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We have a developer colony like this... it's not only at Microsuck.

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Nobody wants a piece of the pie anymore - they all want the entire thing. They are paranoid of sharing information in order to put out a better product for fear that someone else may receive the biggest part of the credit ($$$). Selfish, greedy people. Whatever happened to working for the good of the consumer?

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