Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new, downloadable browser application that brings the photorealism and maneuverability of gaming into its online mapping and local search service. In Virtual Earth 3D, ...

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Four years after releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update with an emphasis on new content creation features, Microsoft is making a few of those features optional. Both applications seemed like ...

Microsoft has launched the UK version of its Virtual Earth Platform, a set of online mapping services aimed at customer-facing businesses such as retail stores, estate agencies and the tourist ...

Microsoft has launched an update to Microsft Virtual Earth. Windows users can now browse the planet in 3D at Live.com, Microsoft's next-gen search destination. Marshall Kirkpatrick at TechCrunch has ...

Microsoft's satellite mapping tool, Virtual Earth, is adding 3D city maps to its interface, allowing users to pull up photorealistic virtual models of 15 U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Seattle, ...

Ok, this isn’t a serious business recommendation. But, I sure wish the cool data Microsoft has been generating for Virtual Earth could be combined with Google Earth. Microsoft’s Bird’s Eye views, ...

Harris Corporation has announced their 15-meter global dataset has been selected by Microsoft for use with Virtual Earth. Harris Corp is well known in the visual simulation and training market for ...

Microsoft announced that the Paint 3D graphics app will be discontinued later this year and removed from the Microsoft Store in November. The 3D graphics program was first unveiled as a replacement ...

Microsoft and NASA have joined forces to develop Earth Copilot, a software tool that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to simplify the process of searching and analyzing Earth science ...

Microsoft debuted a true analogue to Google Earth on Thursday, launching a Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1 that moves Maps into true 3D. The new app, available in the Windows Store, even ...