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Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth

Posted by timothy on from the take-a-memo-take-a-joke dept.

webguru4god writes "The Register has an article detailing a significant omission from Microsoft's new Virtual Earth application. Apparently the satellite image view of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA shows a large empty lot, whereas Google Maps shows the sprawling Apple campus. Hmmm, I wonder if the Google campus is missing too?"

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  1. Re:Not the only change.... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, an anti-MS joke (or is that M$ or MSFT?) on Slashdot that is actually funny? Jeez.

    Fuck me, the next thing we'll know is that DNF has gone gold, Zonk posts his final dupe, and I'll have pulled a girl at 2 A.M. on a friday night who weighs less than 300 pounds...

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  2. Re:I think that's just MS way by oingoboingo · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I've also read in the Register that the Twin Towers from WTC are still there.
    I mean, wouldn't one of the beta testers check for that?

    Yeah, that's a bit of a surprising omission in the quality checking process. Hopefully the beta testers will take the time to edit all the maps of Iraq where buildings have been destroyed by bombing too.

  3. Re:I think that's just MS way by glassjaw+rocks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >IIRC M$ has been in the map business for a long time.

    That still doesn't change the fact that Microsoft copied Google's idea of making satellite imagery available for free on the internet.

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  4. The "cutting edge" software developing company by 1336.5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    seems to do a shitty job of making a map that is still trounced by Google Earth which came out BEFORE it. M$ is freggin pathetic.