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

Well I'm going for a WPF based Google Earth type thing (Live Local Earth?)

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

this is so exciting! i can't wait to find out what it is. i hope they've updated all of the satellite images because right now you can't even zoom in on Toronto.

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

i hope they will give more european maps

A "3rd" dimension perhaps?

Oh dear... now I <i>know</i> 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? ok I'm just kidding with that ;)

"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.

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** 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..."