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MSN Virtual Earth: Oops.

According to ActiveWin this morning, MSN has silently launched their MSN Virtual Earth product. Naturally, I rushed over there to give it a spin. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Maxthon. Seems like an oversight… as both Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps work fine in the same browser with the same settings. I've already submitted a bug… and I'm hoping that it'll be fixed soon, by either one of the two product teams. Sorry, Scoble…
UPDATE: Apparently a malconfigured setting on my end was causing the problem. Total PEBKAC! Things seem to be working fine now. Between MSN Virtual Earth and Google Maps, I'll never need Streets & Trips again.

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7 Comments

Doesn't seem to work at all now.. Hmmmm

That site seems to be down. The Chris effect?

I have noticed Virtual Earth is down as well. they're likely still working on it. Can't wait to try it out when it's officially released!

I took a look at it and posted some impressions on my blog: Virtual Earth Sends Google in Street
It looks promising.

Chris, I'll report this as a bug. Check out the video with the team over on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=91714

If it was not fixed soon, it might have been called “MSN Virtual Oops”.
All in good fun. ;o)

Brandon Paddock

July 25th, 2005
at 7:32pm

Chris – It works fine in Maxthon.
You just have to disable the “Float Ad Blocker” or add it to the white list.

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