reviews.cnet.com— Microsoft is about to upgrade its mapping product, Live Local, to Microsoft Virtual Earth, a competitor to Google Earth.
Nov 6, 2006View in Crawl 4
Perhaps they should do something innovative and come up with their own ideas for once rather than buying, copying, and stealing other people's ideas and products.
haylNov 7, 2006
Perhaps they should do something innovative and come up with their own ideas for once rather than buying, copying, and stealing other people's ideas and products.
neaveNov 7, 2006
Give it a year or so, Google Earth has had a head start here.
motangNov 7, 2006
Sorry but it's not a Google Earth Killer because it is only going to be running on Windows platform not on Linux/Unix or Mac OS X.
aanarchyNov 7, 2006
To use that extension you must have windows.
nkovacsNov 7, 2006
Great concept but again I think Microsoft failed to deliver.
alx5962Nov 8, 2006
I just created a slideshow of some places on Virtual Earth 3D :<a class="user" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/96447740@N00/sets/72157594365694760/show/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/96447740@N00/sets/72157594365694760/show/</a>Fur sure Google earth is better for now, but I love the 3D models on Virtual Earth.Also, I patched the Virtual earth executable so it can run worldwide (except USA ;)
neaveNov 8, 2006
I think this shot is very cool, almost photorealistic:<a class="user" href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=291877022&size=o">http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=291877022&size=o</a>