Review by Dustin

Well, let me tell ya!nnThis little thing is like an encyclopedia of information. It’s amazingly handy and interesting when you’re researching different locations. More than that, information I might have about places can be thrown on here easily, organized, and used. Easily.

Manipulating and moving information to other systems, programs, even your cell phone, is trivially easy. Making routes and scheduling meetings makes a lot of sense. I never thought of it this way before, but many things on my schedule can be planed on a map now. I can save time and organize what I’m doing to reduce my traveling. This is the core of the program: planning things in real space and real time. You can have a complex plan, simplify what it looks like, and everything is easy to understand and change.

Many aspects of the interface are head smackingly obvious yet huge improvements. Back and forward buttons on a map. Great! Almost like surfing the web.

This is a terrific product and while I usually have a problem with MS’s decisions for interfaces, this is really something I would recommend to anyone who would manages information about locations, travels, or just has a busy life.

The best feature is that this is a lot of fun to do. It certainly doesn’t feel like work!