Wow what a blatant rip off of TEO’s mapping feature. Even the UI is nearly identical. In a rare misstep though, Microsoft really made this look ugly. That’s not typical of a Microsoft product but this is an ugly rip-off of TEO’s mapping capability. I’m not too thrilled right now. I’d much rather they bought mine. Oh well, guess I just have to raise the bar. (And stop making my betas so accessible… I think I know who may have "borrowed" this idea from me.)
This isn’t the first time one of my great ideas wound up in a Microsoft product without any credit to me. Those of you too new to the Tablet PC platform to remember pre-SP2 that I actually created the first in-place floating TIP icon that worked with the SP1 input panel. A few months later, this feature appeared in the “Lonestar” alpha.
The lesson learned here is always apply for patents.
UPDATE: As my friend, Andre just pointed out, they even stole my acronym! The installer is called LEO_Setup.exe!!! Live Enhancements for Outlook? Location Enhancements for Outlook? I am pissed.
