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Bing improves Maps
MICROSOFT'S Bing service has gone map happy, announcing new updates and features for the tool.
The firm said today that new features included an enhanced aerial view of the planet, and a streetside lookaround, you know, like the one that Google keeps getting criticised over.
"Our talent in Microsoft Research, Live Labs, and our core engineering teams really combine to be more than the sum of their parts to deliver experiences that better map to what people are doing," says StefanWeitz, Bing director, in a seemingly unrelated statement.
What he is referring to, however, are new features including the ability to shoot from 'outer space' right down to the street outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and get this, then, through its front doors for a bit of a wander about. Such features are enabled by the use of Microsoft's Silverlight, and Photosynth, a photo stitching tool that creates 3D images. "The number and quality of community-generated synths will continue to increase, giving amazing context and texture to geospatial searching," Weitz added.
Weitz explained that the new Maps features were an indication of how Microsoft thinks "beyond the 10 blue links", causing us to turn to our encyclopedia on the Matrix trilogy. Apparently its an internal thing though, or asWeitz explained, "It's about measuring success in the real world - not just asking the user 'Did you find the link you were looking for?' but rather 'Did you accomplish what you were trying to do?".
To help navigation at street level road names hover around the screen, while customisation tools will let users add their own photographs to a local area and have them incorporated via Photosynth. Associated Apps like Twitter Maps will even let users pinpoint where they are when they tweet.
Whatever will people think of next? We're off to the museum. µ
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I go to Bing and click on Maps and this appears -
The web browser on this computer and the Maps site may not work well together. To continue, install a browser that is more compatible with this site. Or, continue to use your current browser, keeping in mind that some features may not work correctly.
Install Internet Explorer
Install Firefox
Go to the map using this browser
Nah - you don't want me, I don't want you, Microsoft.
Is that still going?! Thought they'd canned it.
Microsoft demonstrate what fools they are. They make improvements to Bing search. They code it all in their own proprietary Silverlight.
Problem is, the most common client for viewing the web will soon be the mobile handset, not the desktop computer. An even greater proportion of mapping services will be accessed by mobile devices, rather than desktops.
And where is Microsoft's Silverlight in the mobile sphere? Nowhere. Silverlight is not currently implemented on any mobile platform.
I knew that Voles were renowned for having a low I.Q., but this Vole is more stupid than I thought.
"Our talent in Microsoft Research, Live Labs, and our core engineering teams really combine to be more than the sum of their parts to deliver experiences that better map to what people are doing," says StefanWeitz, Bing director...
WTF is he saying there?
Maybe he could have simplified it and made it easier. Perhaps saying "With Bing Maps you can now click on a place and go inside it, here is an example with the New York Museum. You too can put the inside of a place on Bing Maps using our simple free tools at bingmaps.com."
Easier and with more repetition of product, bingmaps. It is called bingmaps isn't?
And it's not going to be slow and full of horseshit slowdowns like MSN is it? Please no, god no!!!!! ;-)
Well The problem is that we run Ubuntu. So the fact that you have to install Windows based plug-ins for this to work excludes us and many others that don't run windows. Microsoft again tries to tie their proprietary technology to the Internet. With this mentality Bing will never catch up to Google.