I was reading an entry from my buddy Jimmy talking about the recent enhancements Microsoft has done for Windows Live Local. And, it really does seem better than Google Maps/Google Local. That is one thing that you have to give Gates and Microsoft. They are the masters of taking a marketable, great idea that cannot be copyrighted and tweaking/spinning the heck out of the thing into an awesome, money-making product. And Jimmy is right... they might just have something here.
Regardless, I noticed after browsing the Windows Live Local site that there is an Outlook plugin. I just downloaded the free beta plugin to try it out. Who knows what kind of damage may ensue on my computer? But hey, it can't be any worse than what IE7 Beta 2 did to the OS. It has rendered the IE functionality useless even upon the safe uninstall. It even does a neat trick where I can type in URLs into my original IE6 and the Web sites will open in Firefox, which is not set to be my default browser. Sounds great, huh? I'll run down the report after a couple of days.
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