Comments on: Windows Live Local: Virtual Earth Technology Preview

By: Leonid Shalimov

Leonid Shalimov — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:22:21 +0000

Freaking cool. Kinda concerns me about big-brother’esque problems though. This + Google Earth = a lot of possibilities. Some of those possibilities seem scary to me.

Thanks for this though!

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:24 +0000

@Leonid:
I think you may have a point there.

By: dEEPAK

dEEPAK — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:46:40 +0000

looks awesome

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:48:11 +0000

@dEEPAK:
Now we can really be virtual tourists

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:56:53 +0000

Looks great. But need a speedy internet connection I Guess.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:07:58 +0000

@Nirmal:
Hehe that will help

By: Clara

Clara — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:22:07 +0000

I tried driving but LOL I find my car on the sidewalk most of the time. Need some getting use to.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:25:29 +0000

@Clara:
I keep running over things for some reason

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:21:32 +0000

Sounds great! I read about it somewhere else before. And if you’re at the wrong place at the wrong time, you could end up being in one of the images.

By: listikal

listikal — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:15:00 +0000

I love Google’s mapping and street view service, but this is one area that Microsoft is giving them a run for their money.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:35:47 +0000

I have been doing this for months now in Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas with the “Vehicle of Death” cheat - well except that the other cars blow up when I hit them. But my car is still okay!!!

This would actually be really useful - then you can get the feel for a place before going there, and in larger cities it can sometimes be intimidating if you have no clue where you are and what route you should take. I wonder if they are only going to feature US cities, or if they are also going to show some in other countries (ie. Canada?)

By: Aaron Cook dot Com™

Aaron Cook dot Com™ — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:47:42 +0000

Man, that is really cool. Unfortunately, I think I ran over a bunch of people.

Shine on,
Aaron

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:54:52 +0000

@Grace:
Let me know if you get caught on camera

@listikal:
This should speed up the development for both

@Danielle:
Featuring other countries would be great. I’d probably end up touring all the places I could find

@Aaron:
I have a feeling those were the same people I ran over

By: shaun

shaun — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:52:25 +0000

Haha thats soo cool.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:04:16 +0000

@Shaun:
It’s addicting. I had to ~~force~~ persuade my kids to stop so I could use the computer

By: cooliojones

cooliojones — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:48:43 +0000

Like listikal said, this thing looks really good. Microsoft is definitely trying not to lose any more ground to Google on anything. Next thing they need to do is lower the price of Office!!

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:17:26 +0000

@Coolio:
Haha that would be a miracle