Windows Live Local preview

Just saw it on Ricardo Saramago’s blog: Microsoft’s Virtual Earth-powered Windows Live Local preview. Prepare to drool. :)

Impressive technology, certainly, and it’s nice to see that MS can do something “cool” without restricting it to Internet Explorer, requiring ActiveX, being Windows-only, and so on.

Of course, I doubt that 1) this will ever have more than a few places, and 2) this will actually be of use to someone, in place of a GPS navigation system, or even as a Google Earth competitor. It’s great, however, to impress other people, as they’ve surely never seen anything like this. :)

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1 Response to “Windows Live Local preview”


  1. 1 Bruno Rodrigues

    1. It’s just a copy of A9’s Maps: http://maps.a9.com/

    2. It’s completely broken with Safari, and half working with Firefox.

    3. Congrat Europe and the stupid monopoly on georeferenced data, which restricts us to do anything that resembles that.

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