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 cleaning house at Bing, dropping one feature completely, while dropping the need for the company's Silverlight browser plug-in to use the other. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

We’re more than two years in with street-level photography, although Google was the only game in town for most of that time among the majors. There were also less-well-known independents such as ...

Google’s ongoing project with Street View is ambitious, but it’s also not the only one going on at any given time. Microsoft has had its own “Streetside” photography project ongoing for Bing maps and, ...

Bing has announced a large maps update, including so-called Streetside imagery and additional 3-D cities on the Bing Maps Preview app. Are you looking to visit a new city or maybe just take in the ...

In early 2017, Microsoft added real-time traffic information on Bing Maps in 55 countries worldwide to bolster the platform's real-time and predictive route calculations. Today, the Redmond-based ...

Microsoft has taken a big step forward and introduced a new version of its street view feature in Bing Maps, called Street Slide, and boy, is it awesome. Instead of getting periodic, fisheye-lensed ...

Roughly two years ago Microsoft introduced “WorldWide Telescope.” At first it required a software download. It then was made available as a Silverlight web app ...