Monday, July 25, 2005

Current Events Reach Redmond Very Slowly

As pointed out in the Register, Microsoft's Virtual Earth application has deleted Apple's Sunnyvale headquarters from the face of the Earth.


Source: MSN, Google

Of course, since Microsoft typically conducts business as if it wanted bad PR, this deletion is not that suprising. What is suprising — and very disappointing — is that Microsoft has decided to launch this project with satellite imagery so dated that it shows the World Trade Center as intact.


Source: MSN

1 comment:

BuffyICS said...

Google Earth has software that shows 3D satellite images of the entire planet:

http://kh.google.com/download/earth/index.html

Area 51 is still blurred out of course.