Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by our planet at a safe distance of 1.8 astronomical units (roughly 167 million miles or ...

On Sunday Microsoft announced beta availability of MSN Virtual Earth, a new Web service with extensive search and mapping capabilities that give people a way to utilize location-based information ...

On September 22, 2008, Microsoft is planning to permanently deprecate Virtual Earth version 3 and version 4, and to automatically upgrade version 5. On September 10, version 6.0 will be automatically ...

As the intense development of Silverlight has progressed, many have wondered why Microsoft has not created a version of Virtual Earth using the new technology. If you remember, there is Seadragon ...

Yesterday Microsoft included 3D buildings from 15 cities in Virtual Earth, with the ability to fly through those buildings as though you were playing flight simulator. While Google Earth has had 3D ...

Yesterday I made some initial comments on the new Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D (VE3D). I had expectations that Microsoft’s first release of Virtual Earth 3D would be a big event which would spawn really ...

Microsoft finally answers back to Google Maps with their Virtual Earth beta product. Virtual Earth is very similar to Google Maps in that you can drag and zoom satellite or roadmap map views. Virtual ...

Updates for worldwide virtual mapping applications are like buses: you wait ages for one then two come along at once. We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual ...

Microsoft Corp. plans to launch this week Windows Live Local, a new version of its Virtual Earth aerial image service, according to company sources. The company hopes the new service will provide a ...