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 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 Free Online Windows 7 Compatibility Technical Support
Having learned the incompatibility lesson the hard way with Windows Vista, Microsoft is pouring a consistent amount of efforts into ensuring that the next iteration of the Windows client will work smoothly from the get go with as many applications as possible.
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15.6.2009 Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday. The free Web-based application allows users to zoom around the universe and browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.
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13.5.2008 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 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 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 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 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 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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The Online High School
The BBC News website has published an article about the first ever online school, where pupils attend virtual classes by simply logging on.
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29.9.2006 How Microsoft spends its money online
Microsoft's online spending plans will be a central topic today at the company's annual meeting with financial analysts, as detailed in this post yesterday.
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24.7.2008 Google to Introduce Online Spreadsheet Software
Google Inc. will begin rolling out it's new online spreadsheet software today to a limited few in a move that sees the web maestros taking on Microsoft's Excel with a completely free alternative.
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6.6.2006 Google Opens Online Word Processor
Google late Thursday re-opened its Writely beta online word processing application, which the search engine acquired in March. Because the service was being transitioned to Google's servers, it was not accepting new accounts until today.
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19.8.2006 More on ad based MS Works online
Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market.
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22.9.2006 Microsoft Loses More Ground In Online Search
Microsoft continued to lose market share in online search in November, while rivals Google and Yahoo made significant gains, a monthly U.S. study shows.
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22.12.2006 ESET releases Online Scanner - Beta
ESET, a global provider of antivirus software, today announced a release of its new online scanning service. Powered by award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus software, ESET Online Scanner is a free Web-based service that enables computer users to perform a comprehensive system scan to check for and clean viruses, spyware, and other malwarewithout uninstalling their existing antivirus solution.
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4.7.2007 Black Friday brings down online retailers
Amazon, like many other online retailers were brought down yesterday from eager users trying to get their hands on some limited offers from the sites.
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29.11.2008 Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed
On February 28, Microsoft organizes an indepth Windows 7 event in Irvine California.
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22.2.2009 Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
We has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail "hack" or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online.
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5.10.2009 Microsoft: Some Free Vista (+SP1) to Go Along with the Free XP SP2 Downloads?
Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further.
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5.2.2008 Microsoft Origami Project pictures leaked online
Just three days before an official announcement it to me made from Microsoft it appears photos of the new Origami Project have been leaked online.
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6.3.2006Just three d Vista Feature Will Enhance Online Newspaper Reading
Even if you're reading All the News That's Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee ? minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps.
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4.5.2006 Office 14 to add more online document sharing
Microsoft wont be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs.
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13.2.2008 The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience
SEATTLE - April 28, 2006 - Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveiled a prototype of a new PC-based software application for news distribution called Times Reader. Available for download in the coming months, Times Reader is a New York Times application that takes advantage of Microsoft Windows Vista, the next generation of the Windows client operating system, to enhance the online and offline reading experience of The New York Times.
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29.4.2006 True Windows Vista RTM Build screenshots online
Here are some screenshots of the real thing.
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9.11.2006 Microsoft helps fight online child abuse in India
What is that evil, evil Microsoft up to now? The software giant is working with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the international police force Interpol to help Indian law enforcement agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in how to use technologies, tools, and procedures for countering cybercrimes against children.
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20.1.2007 Game Developer Says Vista Breaks Casual Online Games
The world is still absorbing all the added features and security of Windows Vista, game developers and casual gamers may have something to be unhappy about when it comes to the Microsofts operating system.
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31.1.2007In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens
After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world with Google Earth, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many
of them into virtual stargazers.
Google is unveiling within
Google
Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around
and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.
You will be able to
browse into the sky like never before, said Carol Christian, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute, a nonprofit academic
consortium that supports the Hubble Space Telescope.
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22.08.2007WorldWide Telescope Public Beta
A public beta of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope has been released. WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web application that brings together imagery from
the best ground and space based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers.
From the WorldWideTelescope website:
"Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research
with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute
break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations."
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13.05.2008Milkyway rises over Texas video, in honor of Hubble
In honoring the success of the Hubble repair mission star watchers across the globe are holding "star parties" to observe the heavens. Neowin
recently posted pictures of Atlantis pulling Hubble out of orbit and today, in celebration of the successful Hubble repair mission, we bring you the
video below. The Hubble has been successfully repaired and the last humans to ever touch it have left the telescope. The final day was relatively
drama free other than the emotions of those on board who completed the dangerous space walks some 350 miles above the Earth. The telescope has
serviced a vital role in exploring our Universe.
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19.05.2009New Telescope Looks to the 'Violent' Universe
Scientists have turned on a
new telescope in Arizona that
they hope will help them find
so-called 'dark matter.'..
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02.05.2007Man captures images of Atlantis pulling Hubble out of orbit
NASA and some very brave astronauts are currently on a mission to perform maintenance on the aging Hubble space telescope. The mission itself is to
repair broken parts and add in a new camera and other new pieces to help extend the life of the telescope. One amateur astronomer wasn't content
with only reading about it online or possibly watching a live feed. He decided to take a picture of the repair mission by himself from down here on
Earth. What you see below is Atlantis as it is about to capture Hubble from orbit. These impressive and stunning photos were taken by Thierry
Legault's from Florida and the backdrop in the picture is the Sun.
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15.05.2009Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Site Now Live
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best
ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
WorldWide Telescope, created with
Microsoft's high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images,
data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.
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28.02.2008Live Earth Breaks Streaming Records
Microsoft's MSN division said
over the weekend that its
online simulcast of Live Earth
had broken all previous
records for online events with
over 10 million streams
served, surpassing the
previous record held by AOL's
Live 8 coverage in 2005.
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09.07.2007Microsoft 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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19.10.2007WorldWide Telescope Puts Wonders of Space on a PC
Since its public beta release in May 2008, WorldWide Telescope has garnered rave reviews in the press, support from educators and scientists across
the globe, two award nominations, and nearly 2 million regular users...
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25.03.2009Source: Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27
Michael Arrington: A source close to Microsoft says the company will launch new desktop software called WorldWide Telescope on February 27 at the
TED Conference in Monterey,
California. Our guess is that this is what
Robert Scoble was talking about last week when he said he saw a new Microsoft
project that brought him to tears.
The service will be accessed through a downloadable application - Windows only for now is
what we hear. Users will be able to pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far in to any one area as the data will allow. Microsoft is said to be
tapping the Hubble telescope as well as ten or so earth bound telescopes around the world for data. When you find an area you like, you can switch to
a number of different views, such as infrared and non-visible light.
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19.02.2008Microsoft's 'Telescope' to compete with Google 'Sky'
Not wasting any time in rebounding from its failed attempt to buy Yahoo, Microsoft is now readying its own response to Google Sky -- a tool known as
Worldwide Telescope, which is set to launch at the end of the month...
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13.05.2008Nasa unveils Hubble's successor
The US space agency Nasa
has unveiled a model of a
space telescope that
scientists say will be able to
see to the farthest reaches of
the universe.
The James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST) is intended
to replace the ageing Hubble
telescope.
It will
be larger than its
predecessor, sit farther from
Earth and have a giant mirror
to enable it to see more.
Officials said the
JWST - named after a former
Nasa administrator - was on
course for launch in June
2013.
The
full-scale model is being
displayed outside the
Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum in the US
capital, Washington DC.
It was recently shown
off in Seattle at the American
Astronomical Society meeting.
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11.05.2007Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope
Computer users now can fly through the universe, viewing stars, planets and celestial bodies as an astronomer would, with the introduction of the
Worldwide Telescope by Microsoft.
The virtual service combines images and databases from every major telescope and astronomical
organization in the world.
Microsoft says it is providing the resource for free in memory of Jim Gray, the Microsoft researcher
who disappeared last year while sailing his boat to the Farallon Islands on a trip to scatter his mother's ashes. The project is an extension of
Gray's work.
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13.05.2008Hubble Space Telescope crashes again, and fix may not come until February
And you thought fixing your PC was tough? After beaming in pictures from outer space for the past 18 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now needs
to be repaired. But that might not happen until next week, or possibly even next year...
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18.10.2008MSN launches Live Earth tree
Microsoft, the exclusive
online media sponsor for
Live
Earth, has launched the
MSN Live Earth Tree - an
interactive online animation
that lets people worldwide
pledge their commitment to the
environment and join the
battle to halt climate change.
The Live Earth Tree
can be found at
http://www.l
iveearthtree.com/ and
users are invited to visit the
site to design their own
unique leaf for the tree, and
pledge to make small lifestyle
changes to reduce their impact
on the environment.
The tree will grow in size
as people across the globe
sign up to make their pledge
and show their support for the
causes underlying Live Earth,
the concert series taking
place across the globe to
raise awareness of the current
climate crisis...
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07.07.2007Microsoft Bigwigs Donate to Telescope
A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former
company executive Charles Simonyi.
Simonyi is donating $20 million and Gates $10 million to pay for three major mirrors that will
be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights --
something never done before.
Astronomers anticipate surveying the heavens for 10 years, with observations starting in 2015.
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04.01.2008Hands on with Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope beta
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the "Equinox" beta update to the WorldWide Telescope, its vast astronomical visualization software. We spent
some time with the software to see how well you can navigate the universe in 3D...
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31.10.2008Herschel and Planck ready for dual launch
The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory and Planck space telescope have successfully completed their tests in Europe, and will be
flown to the space port in Kourou, French Guiana this week, ready for their launch in April. Named after 18th Century astronomer William Herschel,
the Herschel space observatory will be the biggest telescope mirror in space and capable of viewing wavelength radiation in the far-infrared and
sub-millimetre range. In comparison, the Hubble telescope is only capable of viewing light that is visible to the human eye. The Planck space
telescope is going to be looking for even longer radiation - microwave radiation.
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10.02.2009Let WALL-E be your tour guide to the universe
Microsoft Research and the Disney-owned Pixar are offering you a virtual tour of the universe. Your tour guide? WALL-E, the animated robot from
Pixar's latest film. You'll need the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), a Virtual Earth for the sky and beyond, if you want to download and use the
WALL-E tour. Since WALL-E doesn't have its own voice, Academy-Award-winning director Andrew Stanton narrates the tour. Curtis Wong, manager of
Microsoft's Next Media Research Group, explained why Microsoft went with WALL-E: "WorldWide Telescope is about making science fun for everyone.
By working with Disney/Pixar, we're enabling kids and families to discover the magic of the universe for themselves in an even more engaging way.
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19.11.2008NASA to put image archive into Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft's window into space is about to get more interesting. NASA will put large volumes of high-resolution images and other planetary data into
the Redmond company's WorldWide Telescope online application under an agreement announced this morning...
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