On Friday, I mentioned that Microsoft had unveiled a whole new brand called Bing. Information about this can be found here: http://mandown.co.nz/microsoft/… Earlier this afternoon, Microsoft launched Bing along with Bing Maps publically. Browsing http://www.bing.co.nz or http://www.bing.com On http://www.bing.com I notice Bing is a preview, while on http://www.bing.co.nz its a beta. Weird! Initial thoughts is that Bing is fast, very fast in fact. I am impressed. Even the search results coming back are pretty good. I am still having a play but its looking good. Bing in the http://www.bing.com...

Microsoft today unveiled Bing. Bing is a new Decision Engine and consumer brand providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. While the new Bing consumer brand is targeted towards the search market, Microsoft has renamed Microsoft Virtual Earth. Live Search Maps was our consumer maps offering. This is the web site you go to for maps, aerial photos, directions, searching for points of interest and creating collections of your own personal data to store in the cloud. Live Search Maps is now called Bing Maps. Bing! That’s right, you know...

At the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 earlier this year, ESRI announced that ArCGIS Online will migrate its map services to the Microsoft Virtual Earth/Google Maps tiling scheme. Not many attendees might have picked up on this news, but in the next update which will come through later this year, the tiling scheme will mimic those of Microsoft and Google. This change is in response to feedback from many ArcGIS users who have requested that ESRI use a common map tiling scheme matching other popular online map providers. The new services will particularly enable ArcGIS web developers to more easily combine...

Earlier this month ESRI announced that ArcGIS Online would feature a new premium service. The first addition to this premium service was the introduction of Microsoft Virtual Earth. A few weeks ago ESRI followed up this announcement with a patch for ArcGIS 9.3. This allowed ArcGIS 9.3 users to consume ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ESRI have now made available the ArcGIS Online Premium Services. ArcGIS Online Services Premium subscriptions are now available:  Microsoft Virtual Earth map services for use in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer can be previewed in the content showcase on the ArcGIS...

ESRI has released a new patch that enables you to make use of Microsoft Virtual Earth maps via ArcGIS Online in ArcGIS 9.3. A valid subscription or free evaluation is required in order to use this ArcGIS Online Premium Service. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS 9.3 (Desktop & Engine) for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ ArcGIS Online Premium Service. The Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps premium service collection is a new offering from ArcGIS Online. It enables you to use the Microsoft Virtual Earth Roads, Aerial and Hybrid web map services in ArcMap 9.3. When accessed, each of these services appears as a...