I am leaning toward Obama's policy; Health Care and a more defined solution to economy. But come on, how can I vote someone referring McCain as pig? That's just low. Same as the when he trashs talk about people are bitter and hold on to their bible and guns. That's an insult. Since I am in California, I know he is not referring to me, but I still can't stand it.

Obama may have good policies to fix our problem, but he is just an unexperienced jerk. It is like those graduates working as upper managers, and thinking they are so elite and better than the rest of us. I doubt he has any experience on shaping the government, all just talk as if everything will just work the way he demanded.

McCain on the other hand, he is humble, confident, and consistent. A great leader to follow. If I am under his command in the military, I would be loyal to him. But Obama on the other hand, I would only follow him for his technical skills, nothing more. If only McCain has good policies to convince me that he has the solution to our problems, I would vote for him any day.

Now, vote for character (McCain) or vote for ideas (Obama), that's a hard choice to be made. 

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YouTube - Obama's Take On McCain's Version Of Change
  

Hardrock

The best Deep Zoom project out there. Not only you can zoom to tons of photos, you can sort the result by artist like The Beatles. And more, you get to see what Deep Zoom is really all about. There is a fake stamp contains more photos to zoom in. Even more, one of the photo has more zoom all the way to wobble heads.

Link http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

Yosemite

Use Deep Zoom to watch 45 gigapixels Yosemite photo. Enjoy high resolution nature.

Link http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/Yose_result.html

My idea comes from looking at what MS already have and the trend of marketing. I think Web Based OS is the future. People want their application always be avaliable on web. Like on the web console, you may want to have Paint, Word, and other applicaionts on the Web Desktop where you can access them from anywhere.

I think it is possible with current status of MS.
1) We need a platform where applications are executed on. That's .Net
2) We need personal online storage. MS already can sustain SkyDrive.
3) App store. Windows Live Gallery is a start.
4) Unified Installer. Windows Sidebar gadgets are already using this.

What do we need from here?
1) We need a desktop application to be console host.
It will have its own desktop, gadgets bar, and application manager.
Application Manager list out all uploaded applications (self-upload or bought from MS marketplace).
You can set the application to auto-download. When you open the Web OS on a new computer, it will auto-download the applications using a low priority download manager.
The Web OS will save all the configurations online.
2) What's the name?
Windows Live Console
3) What's included by default?
Windows Live Applications all using WPF. Writer, Mail, IM, and more, like Paint and WMPL.
4) What about the size of the application?
User can deside to download all files or download when required.
Developer or MS will have to deside how to chunk the files.
5) Sub Accounts.
The main account host the billion, applications, and everything. But each OS usually has more than one user. So you have to login to you own account for your own application preference, like Mail setup.
6) Account Merge
You can merge accounts (main account, not sub), but no split.
7) Sub Account is limited to 10.
This is to make sure no one is sharing his paid apps by opening accounts for others.
Need more planing on this.
8) Security
Need more planing. If someone is offline, can be use the app. Like XBLA thing.


Really hope MS is going to look at this, probably won't, sigh.
Whoever does this first, they owns the Web Based OS. OS + Roaming User on the go.
I heard rumors about Midori using cloud computing. I wonder how my idea fits into this.

As my title suggested, I don't know the answer.

Currently I think Microsoft is going into a phase of transitioning assets to different department. Windows Live and Windows is currently colliding each other. Windows Live offers a free version of Email and Photo Gallery application that works better than its counterpart on Vista. It is reasonable because it has tight integration with Hotmail and Live Photo. But then, what's the point of having Vista version of it? Marketing only.

As you can see, XP users can use Live Applications, thus, the gap between XP and Vista is minimal for casual user stand point. This is actually hurting the new OS. However, it is clear that MS is putting a lot more efforts on Live Applications than Windows Applications.

Should the future Windows comes without applications that conflict with Live Applications? Should Microsoft bundle Windows Live Applications from now on when clearly a law suite awaits? How is Microsoft going to consolidate conflicting programs to reduce resources cost and confusion among users?

That's something I keep asking myself.

Anyway, for people want to know about the future of Windows. Search for Windows 7 or Microsoft Midori. Windows 7 features multi-touch interface. Look for Microsoft Surface for related info. Midori is a far away future that is based on Singularity, an OS made on managed code.