Comments on: Microsoft launches Virtual Earth

By: Alycev

Alycev — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:25:06 +0000

Just checking out the reviews they all seem outdated…05/31/06. Im not anywhere as informed as you guys thats why I was looking. I just purchased Microsoft works suite 2006 and it had street & trips 2006. Before I can use it, I have to choose between my IP address or the location finder installer. I was just trying to be careful and look into the ramifications of installing the location finder. I find whenever you give something the invite to your pc, your mostly sorry you did so. It seems hard to get rid of your software guest if you change your mind. So beings this is about a year later any updates on opinions??? alycev.

By: justinjoylife

justinjoylife — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:18:02 +0000

just because MS expands the map to fulllscreen doesn’t make it more innovative…

“The user interface provided by Virtual Earth is more innovative than Google Maps’, with the map view occupying most of the browser window, with floating tool windows appearing over the map.”

some might say that is just bells and whistles…

By: termmert

termmert — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 05:51:13 +0000

Great, Loved it, couldn’t get lost without it, Keep it up Microsoft!!!!!

By: ronald_poi

ronald_poi — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

microsoft… what else could i expected from them?

By: eXplosive

eXplosive — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Looks nice … I like the double click zoom feature.

By: Dean C

Dean C — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

That is absolutely terrible. Not only is the imagery poor, but to be honest I can’t even figure out how to use it. It’s slow, and just confuses me.

By: BerislavLopac

BerislavLopac — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Of course, Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) still looks better and can do more.

By: MonkeyG

MonkeyG — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Google Maps and Google Earth blow Microsoft Virtual Earth out of the water. While they may have “better” DHTML…blah blah blah. People don’t care about that. People want easy to use interfaces with results in the blink of an eye. Google offers a clean, easy to use interface with faster results.(period)

By: Darren884

Darren884 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Looks pretty cool.

By: Justme

Justme — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Like always, Microsoft is quickly to follow an innovation product with its own slower, buggier, microsoft-centric version. Virtual Earth pales to Google Eartch.

Google has better images, is more intuitive, and (most of all) works on ANY browser.

They say copying is the best for of flattery. Well... hats of to google.