One of the features that I really liked about Windows Live Mesh was the ability to point to any folder and say, “sync this”. Both Dropbox and Skydrive “limit” you to only syncing folders that are in their root folder. There are ways around this and this blog post covers one of them and should equally well for both services, though I’ve not tried it with Dropbox. I have moved away from dropbox not because it’s a bad service, but simply because I got more space for free with Skydrive *, and I already had stuff scattered across both services.

On June 1st Microsoft will begin charging for the Service Bus feature in Windows Azure: $ 0.10 per 100 relay hours $ 0.01 per 10,000 messages They have been showing usage on the bills since early in May, but will start charging as of June 1st. You can take a look at your bills and see what your usage as been to estimate cost. Note that any outbound traffic produced by this feature will also be charged the standard egress bandwidth charges for Windows Azure (so, if you have an on-premise service reading from a queue, or hosting a Service Bus Relay endpoint, you’ll see some bandwidth charges in this as well).

Interested in hearing about the upcoming features in Windows Azure? If so, you’ll want to check out the Meet Windows Azure event on June 7th. It will be live streamed for those that don’t live (or don’t want to make the trip) out in the bay area in California. Get registered: http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/