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Microsoft unveiled it’s new web platform named Live Mesh at the Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday. The platform is a cloud service for synchronizing files, folders, and Web-delivered content, such as news feeds, across multiple devices.

Company will soon release Mesh APIs for developers to test it by developing web applications with data-syncing features. Microsoft offered a tech preview along with giving people access to a test version in the Expo.Desktop has always been a strong hold for Microsoft and people have always said it’s not taking “web” seriously because it is too tied to its desktop heritage. Well, part of the PC legacy is the hard drive, as in “your information.”

According to Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzire, we are going to tackle one of the trickiest computing problems of the day: data.

In the Live Mesh blog, Microsoft general manager Amit Mital laid out the following design goals for Live Mesh:

• Your devices work together
• Your data and applications available from anywhere
• The people you need to connect with just a few clicks away for sharing and collaborating
• The information you need to stay up-to-date and always be available

He also laid down the following guiding principles of this platform:

• Services Are the Core of the Platform – the Live Mesh platform exposes a number of core services including some Live Services that can all be accessed using the Live Mesh API; these include Storage (online and offline), Membership, Sync, Peer-to-Peer Communication and Newsfeed.
• Same API on Clients and in the Cloud – the programming model is the same for the cloud and all connected devices, which means a Live Mesh application works exactly the same regardless of whether it’s running in the cloud, in a browser, on a desktop, or on a mobile device.
• Open, Extendable Data Model – a basic data model is provided for the most common tasks needed for a Live Mesh application; developers can also customize and extend the data model in any fashion that is needed for a specific application.
• Flexible Application Model – developers can choose what application developer model best fits their needs.

Some people are suggesting it’s like a WebOS. Why it is being touted as counter Google and Adobe is because Live Mesh brings offline access to Web applications, much like Adobe AIR and Google Gears.
Over all this is a really interesting development and will provide the basis for developing feature rich applications.