Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps

Posted by Unknown on Monday July 7, 2014 @04:04PM from the 90s-time-warp-fixed dept.

DroidJason1 (3589319) writes Microsoft has killed off two of its mapping products, MapPoint and Streets & Trips. Both of these services have received their last update and will soon be retired in favor of Microsoft's premier mapping product, Bing Maps. The company has yet to go public with a press release announcing the retirement of these two mapping services, but the Redmond giant has quietly mentioned the fate on both the services' websites. MapPoint was first released back in 1999 and made it easier to view, edit, and integrate maps into software. Streets & Trips was a route planning package. Microsoft is now pushing Bing Maps exclusively.

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Re:Problem with proprietary 'free' offerings by Mashiki · 2014-07-07 18:30 · Score: 4, Informative

The question is how many people actually know how to read a paper map these days. I'll be it's damned few since they don't even teach it in school anymore, let alone how to use a compass.

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Re:Problem with proprietary 'free' offerings by shutdown+-p+now · 2014-07-07 20:22 · Score: 4, Informative

HERE Maps (by Nokia) also work offline, at least on Win8 and WP8.