As of February 2013, Microsoft’s Live Mesh PC-sync service will be no more. SkyDrive is its replacement.

Live Mesh fans, the day many of you feared has come: Microsoft is acknowledging its plans to “retire” its Live Mesh PC-sync service on February 13, 2013.

“(W)e’re starting to communicate with the remaining Mesh users and provide a set of instructions on how to keep their files in sync and alternative options for some of the features they’re still using,” said the Redmondians in a December 13 post on the “Inside SkyDrive” blog.

Microsoft introduced Live Mesh back in 2008 with much fanfare. The original plans for Live Mesh were quite ambitious; it was supposedly going to be a lot more than just a sync service in its full implementation.

But there have been growing hints for some time that Microsoft planned to replace Live Mesh with SkyDrive.