Microsoft is to closely cooperate with the OpenStreetMap project, whose founder it has hired. The initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery to ...

Microsoft is taking another shot at Google’s Maps supremacy with a public preview of its Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1. While the company already offers a Maps app, the new preview features ...

Despite Microsoft’s sell-off of the tech and talent underlying Bing Maps last week, the company has now signaled its intention to stay in the mapping game: Microsoft today announced an overhauled Bing ...

You can now turn on a special layer in Bing Maps that displays maps from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft has announced. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping project that keeps an editable map of the ...

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The Photosynth technology immersing oneself in a virtual view of a location now is integrated with Microsoft's online maps. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Microsoft Corp. is releasing an updated version of its mapping service with street-level views and new “apps” that tack on tweets, traffic and other location-specific data. The new version of Bing ...

Microsoft's mobile ecosystem is in rough shape, so it didn't help when Nokia sold its Here mapping software to a German auto consortium. That group promptly pulled Windows support, leaving users with ...

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a beta version of Windows Live Local, which is based on its Virtual Earth aerial image application and integrates local search, mapping, driving directions and yellow ...

WASHINGTON – As software rivals, Microsoft (MSFT) wants to wipe Apple Computer (AAPL) off the map. With Microsoft's new Web service for satellite photographs, did the world's largest software company ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a stunning game, everybody knows this already, and without a doubt, it was one of the most anticipated releases this year in the gaming world. And while Microsoft has put ...

Microsoft has good news for those thinking Windows 11 bundles too many stock applications. Starting with build 25987, released in the Canary Channel today, all clean Windows 11 installations no longer ...