Ok. Not off to a good start. Front page took longer to load than local.live.com does, and that's saying something.

Managed to find my house ok when searching by address, but when I searched for work using Find Business, it crashed IE... Bugger...

My first experience actually wasn't bad :) I managed to navigate to a location, then clicked on it to get "driving directions to here" and just typed in the start location in a little textbox hovering over the destination, it auto-completed (quickly) and returned the results quickly too - map printing was stupid though... I zoomed in a bit on what I wanted, then hit print and it just output the original zoomed-out map to the printer... hardly intuitive!

I ended up having to use the snipping tool to print the map I was actually looking at... *joy* ;o)