I use a service called gorialla mobile http://www.gorillamobile.com/. They provide me with a 212 - which i diall to get international access at very cheap rates. I don't care that 212 is new york (and not my local dialing area) as I only ever call this number from my cell phone (with free long-distance). What I particularly like is that this service recogonizes my phone via callerId. It then just gives me an internation daill tone. I don't have to enter any pass-codes, card numbers, or anything like that... simple, cheap, and it works very well for me.
I have no connection to MS, but I would suspect that in addition to what you suggested above, its quite possible that MS will integrate the browser much deeper into the o/s with longhorn.
They could then do crazy things like offer desktop/file search from your bowser... yeah google do this for you today, but MS could go deeper, they could intrgrate all this technology so that your standard windows file chooser applet is integrated.
Then when you want to open a file you can searh your disk, the web or your "search group" (where a search group could be a group of colleagues or friends PC's, imagine waste http://waste.sourceforge.net/ integrated into the OS, and included in your search results?
Naturally all this would be nicely integrated with DRM (incase your searching of sharing any mp3's divx or whatever).
MS could release longhorn with technology like this to great fanfare, sure most of this is doable today, but MS can kick up quite a stink and are mighty handy at the old Marketing game....
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I use a service called gorialla mobile http://www.gorillamobile.com/.
They provide me with a 212 - which i diall to get international access at very cheap rates. I don't care that 212 is new york (and not my local dialing area) as I only ever call this number from my cell phone (with free long-distance).
What I particularly like is that this service recogonizes my phone via callerId. It then just gives me an internation daill tone. I don't have to enter any pass-codes, card numbers, or anything like that... simple, cheap, and it works very well for me.
I have no connection to MS, but I would suspect that in addition to what you suggested above, its quite possible that MS will integrate the browser much deeper into the o/s with longhorn.
They could then do crazy things like offer desktop/file search from your bowser... yeah google do this for you today, but MS could go deeper, they could intrgrate all this technology so that your standard windows file chooser applet is integrated.
Then when you want to open a file you can searh your disk, the web or your "search group" (where a search group could be a group of colleagues or friends PC's, imagine waste http://waste.sourceforge.net/ integrated into the OS, and included in your search results?
Naturally all this would be nicely integrated with DRM (incase your searching of sharing any mp3's divx or whatever).
MS could release longhorn with technology like this to great fanfare, sure most of this is doable today, but MS can kick up quite a stink and are mighty handy at the old Marketing game....