Microsoft debuted a true analogue to Google Earth on Thursday, launching a Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1 that moves Maps into true 3D. The new app, available in the Windows Store, even ...

The service offers a 45-degree bird’s-eye view covering about one-quarter of the country’s population. Cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Las Vegas. The ...

Google competes with Microsoft in a number of fields. While the Seattle-based tech company doesn't have a mobile OS in the works anymore, they still go head to head against Google in areas such as web ...

For all intents and purposes, Bing Maps Beta, which went live Wednesday, is uncannily similar to Google Maps, but distinguishes itself with a few innovative tweaks. For one, there's Bing's Streetside, ...

Microsoft is taking aim at one of Google’s most popular services, Google Maps, with a richer version of its own online mapping service that was released in beta on Wednesday. The new Bing Maps uses ...

A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and mapping company TomTom is releasing data that could enable developers to build their own maps to take on Google Map and Apple Maps. The group, called the ...

Redmond is adding public transit data from Moovit into Azure Maps to help developers build better apps for commuters. As part of the collaboration, announced Tuesday, Microsoft can also add Moovit's ...

Bing Maps is not as widely used as some other mapping services like Google Maps, but Microsoft’s still investing resources into it in order to develop new features. Today, for instance, the company ...