The Connector is a new transportation service launched by the Microsoft® Connections Transportation Program.  It carries employees from their residential neighborhoods to the Redmond, Wash., campus.  Today was the first day. 

I rode in to work today on the connector and enjoyed the stress-free commute.   The coach was a full size rig with plenty of cool features including:

• bike racks
• Wi-Fi connectivity (2 routers, no connection problems, seemed to be stable and have plenty of bandwidth)
• AC power ports 

They even handed out some goodies today to all the riders (stainless steel traveler tumbler and compact umbrella). 
The Connector service will result in 20,000 fewer cars per month and 240,000 fewer cars per year on the road.
The Connector will eliminate approximately 3,800 tons of carbon emissions annually.

By providing a convenient option for commuting to work, The Connector will eliminate approximately 800 vehicle trips and 32,200 miles of travel each day, significantly curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

• "tracking your current location, viewing local gas prices, or routing a trip across the country is incredibly easy"
• "Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 is a solid update to the past software, with some nice enhancements of both software and hardware. The new Location Based services add in good live data to help make travel more enjoyable (and cheaper), and the highly sensitive GPS receiver helps the driver track their location even under dense cover. My only hope is the live traffic data through FM becomes more complete for certain regions, if the same data exists through other mapping programs."   [ link to full review on Notebookreview.com]