I remember anytime I needed to download patches and updates for microsoft software, Google would always have it as the first 3 results, while live.com would give me documentation, readmes, text articles, discussions, everything except the DOWNLOAD ITSELF, which tended to be on page 3.
With bing it’s at least on the first page now.
Good job MS, you can successfully return good results for your own webpages with your own software, at last!
Apart from that I think the features are quite nice. Maybe I’m just hating on it too much based on live search experiences, and the logo design. They’re trying to push using it through search results for news stories on msn.com, but I think this is eventually going to backfire on them when a particular search for news items returns completely wrong things, from the few times I’ve clicked on the news event search I did eventually get to a decent article, but overall I think this idea was silly.