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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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