More moronic worthless crap from Microsoft. If they truly want to got to a visual format, why is there text on the screen? Choices maybe, but Microsoft obviously has no real idea how humans think.

Oh well, one more failed (already) "innovation" that's eventually going to bring Microsoft down.

upchuck the contents of my stomach...

I am an engineering student. We use UGS NX5 for our 3D modelling. Everything that the program offers comes in a graphical representation on the toolbars. I would rather see the text toolbar with all the options on it. That would save me 80% of the time using the software.
In case of the search engine, I think that simply giving the user the option of searching for their own term, AND giving them a few options on what they may want to search for, Google beats M$ and YHOO... Nice try, but people can read faster than decipher meaningless images on screen. Sorry, M$, another epic failure. Just like Bing.

.....Google Image Search, maybe a bit of a different approach but not really a fresh idea is it?

These are all hardcoded.