Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world.
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19.11.2006 Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D 3.0 Beta: Free Download
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there".
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7.10.2008 Defense agency to use Microsoft's Virtual Earth
Microsoft is collaborating with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a division of the Department of Defense, on its Virtual Earth technology.
The NGA wants to use the Virtual Earth technology "to provide geospatial support for humanitarian, peacekeeping and national security efforts," Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday.
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19.5.2006 Microsoft to Users: Patch Virtual Earth
Microsoft is permitting end users of Virtual Earth that are not happy with the content offered via the service to introduce patches with imagery.
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1.8.2008 Virtual Earth, Full of Stars, via WorldWide Telescope
At the end of September, Microsoft made available a new version of Virtual Earth 3D, complete with a new 3D control.
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7.10.2008 Mac Virtual Machine Update Runs Vista
Enhancements to Parallels Desktop for Mac include support for the recently released multi-processor Mac Pro tower equipped with 3.5GB of RAM, as well as for the developer build of Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard.
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22.9.2006 Yodm 3D - 3D Desktop for Windows XP and Vista
Thanks to hwh1226 for this download link.
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17.4.2007 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but dont have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Google Earth Used as a Spy Satellite?
The homicide detectives from the Melbourne department have recently started investigating a murder case, which seems to be taken out of a thriller that cannot be broadcasted before midnight. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the front yard of an empty Melbourne house that had an overgrown lawn, which covered the body all too well.
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13.12.2007 MSN.com Kicks Off Live Earth Promotions
Microsofts MSN.com is kicking off its sponsorship of the upcoming Live Earth concert series with a host of promotions, including earth-friendly premiums and sweepstakes.
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29.6.2007 Why we can count on Bill Gates to save the earth
Bill Gates is an improbable humanitarian. He built a reputation as a nightmare boss at Microsoft, a totalitarian who screeched at employees he thought were stupid. He bludgeoned competitors with his illegal monopoly.
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3.9.2007 Bill Gates no longer richest man on earth
After 13 years on top, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend and sometimes bridge partner Warren Buffett.
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6.3.2008 Google Earth for Windows 5.0.11337.1968 Beta
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
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3D TV
3D Dissolve Screen Saver
Watch 3D objects in random sizes and colors as they spin and transform. You might not see the same morphing twice. This updated version is smaller in size and has fixed a system key bug in Windows 95B.
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3D Santa Screen Saver
This screen saver features a 3D Santa Claus performing a variety of acrobatic acts (and a few unusual stunts, too). If you have a sound card, you can listen to some accompanying effects, as well.
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3D Ultimate Vista for DreamScapes
3D Ultimate Vista For DreamScapes, RS. Vista Ultimate wallpapers with original transition effect...
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23.3.2007 Windows Vista 3D Desktop
Microsoft indicated early that Vista will feature a three-dimensional interface with transparency, moving objects, anti-aliasing and other effects. Thanks to portos for this download.
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10.7.2007 IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that weve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Star Trek Voyager 3D Screensaver
Do you ever wish that the computer graphics in recent science-fiction TV shows had more air time? With the Star Trek: Voyager Screensaver, you can watch a 3D rendition of the beloved ship as it soars through the galaxy.
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UniveRSS, A 3D RSS Reader from Microsoft
In an email from MSDN Microsoft silently mentions the UniveRSS reader. After a look i actually was quite surprised. Microsoft took the RSS possibilities from IE7 and put them into a really stunning 3D interface!
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4.12.2006 TopDesk - 3D Flipper for Windows XP
TopDesk is a quick and easy way to switch between applications. With a single key press, you can instantly view thumbnails of all open windows, display thumbnails of windows belonging to the current application, or hide all windows to quickly access the desktop.
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2.2.2007 Download Duke Nukem 3D: Hi Res Project
Manhattan Project is occasionally frustrating, but when it's good, it's very, very good.
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Creative Hardware Accelerated 3D Audio for Vista
Creative Labs has opened up the doors to its ALchemy Project to enable hardware acceleration for DirectSound and EAX audio algorithms in Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista. The Alchemy Project is currently in its beta stages and intends to work around Microsofts audio limitations in Windows Vista due to the removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer, or HAL.
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23.1.2007 It's a Virtual(ization) Mystery
Microsoft's eleventh-hour switch on Vista virtualization licensing is a case for Nancy Drewassuming she knows as much about techno-ware as classic wear.
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27.6.2007 Virtual PC 2007 now available on Connect
Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer.
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12.10.2006 Microsoft updates Virtual Server
Thanks to odeeee for this article. In hopes of pulling some attention away from Vmware and other vendors, Microsoft is beefing up their virtualization offerings.
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13.6.2007 Microsoft Takes Stand on 'Virtual' Licensing
Microsoft is taking a stand on an emerging technology that threatens to reshape software pricing models.
The company on Monday is expected to detail changes to its server product licensing to better accommodate virtualization software, an emerging technology that big companies are eyeing as a way to consolidate servers and cut costs.
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Review
A Little History
Virtualization software is nothing new, and dates back quite some time. One of the most popular examples for the end user was Connectix Virtual PC for the Mac. Since there are a pretty huge number of programs that are only available on Windows, this created a strong market niche to let Mac users run Windows programs, even if at reduced speed.
Virtual PC for the Mac, rather than emulating Windows, emulated the x86 architecture and the requisite peripheral devices, such as a video and sound card. This meant that emulation could work quite flawlessly, but also that any user would need to purchase a copy of Windows as well and then install it onto the Virtual PC. Virtual PC was a success and Connectix later created a Windows version which let you run most x86 OSes ? something quite useful for developers, enthusiasts, and IT professionals.
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22.1.2006 Virtual PC 2004 SP1 is freeware!
Microsoft has released an update to Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, and is now making the virtualization software available free of charge to all users. The company also promised to freely release Virtual PC 2007 next year, bringing support for Windows Vista.
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13.7.2006Microsoft Launches Virtual Earth 3D
Microsoft on Monday took the
wraps off Virtual Earth 3D, a
new version of the company's
mapping application that
enables users to "fly"
through three-dimensional
models of cities from directly
within their Web browser -
complete with virtual
billboards.
Photos:
View images from
Virtual Earth 3D..
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07.11.2006Virtual Earth 3D v1.1 Beta Available
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information
viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you,
making Live Maps more useful than ever. Even better -- it's just plain fun!
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24.08.2007Virtual Earth, Live Maps update: Lots of new features, new SDKs, more
Virtual Earth 6.2, a big new update to Live Maps, and new access to a 3DVia content library where you can download, mash-up, and include 3D content on
your 3D maps collections just went live. Lots to tell you about, and well be going into more depth on Virtual Earth soon, but heres some highlights.
Thanks to Virtual Earth Evangelist Chris Pendleton for keeping us in the loop on this one...
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25.09.2008Microsoft Virtual Earth Used for OnStar
Microsoft Virtual Earth has become OnStar's software platform for merging GPS location and 3D aerial imagery. Companies ranging from Microsoft to
Intel and Google have all been participating in various ways in the integration of automobiles with Web 2.0 technology.
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14.05.2009Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D gets boost with Caligari acquisition
In an attempt to level the playing field with Google Earth, Microsoft has scooped up Caligari, makers of 3-D rendering software...
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08.02.2008Google tools to power virtual worlds
Get ready for online games set in your favorite Google Earth locations.
Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is
set to announce a partnership Tuesday that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from
Google's online repository of 3D models, its
3D Warehouse, as well as
terrain from Google Earth.
The idea is simple: Multiverse's technology--which gives game developers tools to design custom
virtual worlds--will let those designers pick and choose from most of the millions of 3D models created using Google's 3D software tool SketchUp, and
to import pieces of terrain, as defined by entering specific longitude and latitude data, from Google Earth.
If you want to build
a virtual world centered on, say, downtown San Francisco, you could use the new technology to create the area itself and populate it with the digital
versions of real-world buildings that have been created and uploaded to the 3D Warehouse.
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09.10.2007MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth
MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth makes it easy to publish maps overlaid in an application using the Virtual Earth map control. Once you
are familiar with the tool, it will take you about ten minutes to generate a new tile layer.
Just find 5 to 10 corresponding
landmarks on your map and on the Virtual Earth map view, and MapCruncher will register your map to the global coordinate system, warp it to fit a
Mercator projection, and generate a set of image tiles that can be seamlessly layered on top of Virtual Earth map control's standard road, hybrid, or
aerial imagery. It even makes a sample HTML page for reference.
MapCruncher accepts a variety of vector formats (PDF, WMF, EMF)
and raster formats (JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP).
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16.10.2007Microsoft Expands Virtual Earth Reach
InfoNow will integrate
Microsoft's Virtual Earth
application into its mapping
location services that it
provides for retail outlets
and banks, the two companies
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28.03.2007Microsoft Virtual Earth gets a 48TB update
Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release.
What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over 48TB of new and improved imagery. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth
technical evangelist at Microsoft, announced that the service has updated it's global vector data for the majority of it's tile sets. The
update includes multilingual tile sets for all zoom levels, localized tile sets for Japan, and all Bird's Eye imagery has been updated with new
road map labels.
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01.01.2009Live Spaces Vision - get blog updates in (near) real-time
So many blogs, so little time. There are over 112 million blogs on the Internet! How do you keep up? You can take
Live Spaces Vision for a spin! Yea really, a spin! Beware not to get dizzy
while this shows you all recently updated Windows Live Spaces. Watch that Virtual Earth globe go round and round and round....
You can watch in 2D or 3D, the first time you start 3D mode you will be asked to install Virtual Earth 3D. To tilt and rotate the map, hold the
'CTRL' key on the keyboard whilst pressing your left mouse button. Scroll the mouse to rotate the globe on its axis.
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16.05.2008Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 revealed
One of the features that was initially shown off about Windows 7 was the touch capability; that talk seems to have died down lately, amongst the beta
and RC releases, but an announcement today has brought it back into the limelight. A post over at the Windows Team blog has just revealed the
Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7. This pack brings a range of touch-friendly applications, of which we will detail below. Microsoft Surface Globe:
The first of these applications is called Microsoft Surface Globe. This, as you can imagine, is a multi-touch capable globe (think Google Earth) that
uses the Virtual Earth 3D engine to display a rotatable 3D version of the world.
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28.05.2009Gov't Agency to Use Virtual
Earth
The National
Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency, a division of the
Department of Defense, said
Thursday that it will use
Microsoft's Virtual Earth
technology "to provide
geospatial support for
humanitarian, peacekeeping and
national security
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19.05.2006Virtual Earth Now Windows Live
Local
On Thursday, Microsoft plans
to retire MSN Virtual Earth
after just five months of
providing maps and satellite
imagery. Its replacement will
be Windows Live Local, a
service that brings together
local search, mapping and
business listings under the
new Live.com brand...
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08.12.2005MSN Virtual Earth Tours
Katrina Damage
MSN is using its Virtual Earth
client to provide 24-hour news
channel MSNBC with a birds-eye
views of the damage from
Hurricane Katrina. Users can
zoom down to street level to
examine damage and flooding.
The application will also let
users compare views from
before and after the storm...
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16.09.2005Virtual Earth Becomes Windows
Live Local
Microsoft mapping service to
provide higher quality images
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07.12.2005Surface and Virtual Earth demoed at CIO Summit
This one has been in my list to post for a few days now, unfortunately Mix 08 kinda got in the way. At the
Microsoft CIO Summit that took place early last week, the new
Surface computer/table was shown off. What is cool is that they demoed Virtual Earth on it, creating a mashup between hardware, software and
services.
The
Virtual
Earth For Government blog posted...
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12.03.2008Microsoft Buys Imaging Firm
Vexcel
Microsoft on Thursday
announced its second
acquisition related to the
company's new Virtual Earth
business unit, buying imaging
and remote sensor specialist
Vexcel Corp. Vexcel's
employees will join the
Redmond company and help build
out its 2D and 3D mapping
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04.05.2006Google brings all of Earth to your browser
This morning at the Google IO conference, the company announced a new browser plug-in that enables users to get the same high-flying experience
they've been getting in the standalone geography software application
Google
Earth.
The diminutive plug-in, which weighs in at just 300k turns Firefox 2 (3 RC1 is not currently supported) or IE6 and 7
into 3D-capable mapping solutions. The technology ties into the Google Earth API, and the current example
found here lets you zoom around all of earth, complete with 3D topography. The controls are a little
more stripped down, with one button that scrolls around and right click contextual menus that let the user control which angle they're viewing the
map from. In the future, developers will be able to build their own tools on top of this platform, and drop it right into their sites.
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29.05.20083D desktop revealed in recent Apple patent filing
Dozens of Apple patent applications were published lately revealing research that Apple had completed in 2007 on many topics encompassing future
versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a "Multidimensional" user interface. Apple has
essentially been working on true 3D desktop environments. It's not clear when and if Apple will decide to implement these new 3D desktop design
ideas into a future version of Mac OS X. The 3D desktop idea suggests that Apple would take their existing Mac OS components like the dock, dashboard,
add more depth and give a three dimensional look.
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12.12.2008Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes Launch Microsoft Virtual Earth -3DVIA
Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3-D and product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions, and Microsoft Corp. today launched Microsoft®
Virtual Earth™ -3DVIA (Technology Preview). This free online application, developed by Dassault Systèmes, allows consumers to imagine and create
realistic 3-D models such as of buildings and structures then share them through Microsoft Virtual Earth and online communities.
Virtual Earth -3DVIA users will be able to build a world that mixes their future projects and ideas with real-life places, buildings and
structures, said Lynne Wilson, senior vice president and general manager of 3DVIA at Dassault Systèmes. Through Microsofts online geographic
location mapping technology and our 3-D modeling and realistic visualization know-how, we have created a new level of realism within Virtual Earth
that provides an unrestricted freedom for creativity and innovation.
Users can
download Virtual Earth -3DVIA for free and immediately begin using
the fun, easy-to-use and intuitive application. Virtual Earth -3DVIA allows anyone to do the following with their ideas...
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