When Pete LePage was still a teenager growing up in Mississauga, Ont., he and his friends used to love driving down to the Harbord Bakery in downtown Toronto. After seven years working with Microsoft in Seattle, however, you can't blame him if he needs a little help finding his way down there again. "That's when something like this really becomes useful," says LePage, a product manager with the software giant's Internet Explorer division, pointing to a screen that offers a sneak preview of version 8's second beta edition. He's using a search box that gives suggestions on what he might be looking for based on his chosen content providers (in LePage's case, of course, this is Live Search rather than Google).
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