Although Microsoft Live Mesh provides many ways to do its various tasks, few were intuitive in the beta we tested. It cries out for a good quick-start guide, but the closest you get for now is a video tour. We were frustrated by features that were hard to discover, and glitz that seemed to slow down the work. The most distinctive feature, the remote-desktop capability, is already built into Windows, and unless Microsoft can come up with very attractive pricing (which at this writing hasn't been determined), we would look elsewhere.