I reckon we will see the integration of Live messenger and live Local, click on an address and call the company. ???

Can’t wait. Love Local.live now. Maybe some intergrtation with S&T07?

how about the infinite scroll bar, is this going to be reintroduced

A “3rd” dimension perhaps?

Oh dear… now I know that I won’t sleep until Tuesday…. Microsoft is really getting good at this “build up tension/speculation” thing!!!! Dying to know what this is!!! I do hope it extends beyond US though… Hope they don’t do a “zune” on us europeans….

“nobody has suggested the a 4th dimension yet?”

That’s it! It’ll let us look back in time!!! And maybe… forwards in time…? (Wait a second, I’ve seen that movie before…)

Anyway, I’ll just copy & paste my comment from the initial VE update alert:
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2006/10/31/Virtual-Earth-update-next-week.aspx

with emphasis added to highlight my prescience. ;) (If this *does* prove to be prescient, I’ll be super excited, because Photosynth is super cool!)

“It may take a few releases, but

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** they simply MUST eventually integrate Photosynth.
**
** http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
**
** It’d really tie Image and Local search together, for one thing. It could be the
** solution for stitching Bird’s Eye photos. It would complement Bird’s Eye
**incredibly well.
***********************

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Other than that -

1) Street-side imagery, agreed.
2) More data layers (see Encarta maps).
3) GPS support.
4) Better Collections sharing & browsing (& RSS).
5) Refine the interface a bit. :)
6) ORB!!! :-D Gotta love the orb…”