No Apple HQ In MSN Virtual Earth

Tuesday 26 July 2005 @ 4:27 pm

Just posted 3 articles about Google Maps last week. Now it’s their bitter rival, MSN Virtual Earth’s, turn. :)

This is rather not a good news, but a weird one, i guess. :D If you have time, take a look of the snapshot from MSN Virtual Earth at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, then have a look of the snapshot from Google Maps.

Apple HQ In Google Maps

What do you see? It’s like the Ad slogan of Danone’s ChipsMore, “Now you see it, now you don’t.“.

Nothing In MSN Virtual Earth

In Google Maps, you are able to see the Apple Cupertino HQ clearly, whereas in MSN Virtual Earth, it shows an apparently empty field. Questions raised such as, “This could be no more than an old picture taken before Cupertino was built or a glimpse of an imagined future”, etc.

Quoted:
Even more disturbing MSN’s Virtual Earth still shows the twin towers of the World Trade Center in all their pre-9/11 glory.

So, don’t be surprise if you don’t see your house or Linux HQ in MSN Virtual Earth. :D

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2 Responses to 'No Apple HQ In MSN Virtual Earth'

LcF - July 26th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
read somewhere that the microsoft’s satelite photo is very outdated, the buildings beside also different.
SapiensBryan - July 26th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Ya, if you notice, it is somemore not as colourful as Google Maps.

Seems that Microsoft will have to send their own satellite to the outer space one day. :D