Bing for iPad: The Portal is Back, Baby! With a Hint of Windows Phone’s Metro UI

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, everyone wanted to have a web portal that would provide its users with everything they could possibly need: Email, news, reference material, and more. The idea was to attract and keep attention on a one-stop shop. The portal concept morphed into creating a rich family of services that worked together to, again, attract and keep attention on a set of web properties and, more recently, mobile apps.

Microsoft’s new Bing for iPad is a free app that may bring back the one-stop shop concept because, quite honestly, it does a good job of getting your attention and keeping it.