Microsoft announced on December 13, 2012, that Windows Live Mesh would be discontinued on February 13, 2013.

[4] On March 10, 2008, Microsoft released its first user visible update to the then Windows Live FolderShare.

New UI improvements were also announced to be part of the "Wave 3" release, integrating it with other Windows Live services.

[7] Microsoft released the Live Mesh technology preview on April 23, 2008, a data synchronization system that allowed files, folders and other data to be shared and synchronized across multiple personal devices and up to 5 GB on the web.

[9] The information about devices and folders participating in a synchronization relationship was not stored locally but at the service-end.

A Mesh Object consisted of a collection of Data Feeds, which could be represented in Atom, RSS, JSON or Plain Old XML formats.

[15] A beta version Windows Live Sync "Wave 4" was released on June 24, 2010.

The beta was subsequently updated on August 17, 2010, and on August 29, 2010, the service was officially rebranded as Windows Live Mesh, and its cloud-based SkyDrive synced storage was increased to 5 GB, as was the case for the previous Live Mesh service.

Windows Live Mesh was discontinued on February 13, 2013, and some of the functionality is replaced by SkyDrive.