Microsoft's Earth deletes Apple HQ

John Chambers jc at trillian.mit.edu
Tue Jul 26 12:22:11 EDT 2005


Jerry Feldman wrote:
| A sorry state of affairs has occurred where Apple HQ is no longer located in
| Cupertino, at least on MSN Aerial photographs:
| http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?ss=apple&cp=37.333411|-122.029708&style=h&lvl=17&v=1
|
| However, for those of us who don't do MSN, most of the rest of the world
| does show that it exists:
| http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.332307,-122.030103&spn=0.005924,0.010131&t=k&hl=en

My favorite observation on this, from several shashdot  comments,  is
that  to  Microsoft, the "Virtual Earth" includes only the US.  There
are no other countries on their version of the planet.

This joke doesn't qork with google, of course,  because  they  aren't
yet claiming to show you the entire Earth.  They just show "maps".

Presumably MS is planning to extend the site to  include  some  other
portions of the planet.




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