now now scott,

this virtual earth beta HAS been up for over a year now, without much updating. I think, the next update is not till september, so let's give it a moment.

Of course, it would have been much easier for MSFT to buy keyhole, and then they could have just rebadged and updated that software within six months, and released it.

As for the pro version, I have it based on my previous keyhole subscriptions. I wouldn't say the zoom is that much better, for some reason it seems to run faster and refresh faster, I think I am getting logged into a differant server when using the login.