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
Daniel C.
July 24th, 2005
at 10:32am
Doesn't seem to work at all now.. Hmmmm
Matt Hartley
July 24th, 2005
at 2:16pm
That site seems to be down. The Chris effect?
klloyd1982
July 24th, 2005
at 6:24pm
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!
Claudiu
July 25th, 2005
at 11:53am
I took a look at it and posted some impressions on my blog: Virtual Earth Sends Google in Street
It looks promising.
scobleizer
July 25th, 2005
at 1:15pm
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
Matt Hartley
July 25th, 2005
at 5:07pm
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.