Live.com has released a new web based competitor to Google Earth. It's called:Microsoft Virtual Earth 3DI came upon it totally randomly while looking at houses and was really impressed. I'm not in agreement with this guy for a bunch of reasons. First, who cares that it's only available for IE. That makes up 85% of the market AND we all know that they'll be releasing for FF soon enough (don't know about other platforms, but I'd bet on it). And second, it requires a lot less work to install than Google Earth does.Second, with the ability to program against in using Javascript (like this http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=1a6474da-1d84-479c-a95f-59e8234d745e), this could be really really cool. Nicely done VE3D team.D