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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. really old pix by Hackyourmacaroni · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's just a very out of date satellite image. some are even crazier, my house is a big empty field of grass.

  2. There's a good reason for that by Tom7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, well, the MSN maps are much older (I think the USGS ones from the mid-early 1990s) than the Google ones. For instance, it shows Carnegie Mellon's campus without many of its current buildings.

  3. Ol picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Old picture, I suppose. Notice all the construction areas in the area around it.

  4. Hilarious... but kinda creepy too by under_score · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's child-like behavior to blot out the competition. Funny, cause it really only ends up hurting MSFT in the long term. Maybe not in a big way, but those few who might be wavering in the evil/good empire assessment might finally tip over the the MSFT-is-definitely-evil side :-)

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  5. World Trade Center too by maddh · · Score: 0, Redundant
    They have old World Trade Center photos too.

    http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?ss=World% 20Trade%20Center&cp=40.7125|-74.011994&style=h&lvl =17&sp=adr.7609%2010th%20Ave%2C%20Brooklyn%2C%20NY %2011228&v=1

    I still like google's interface better, seems a little cleaner.