Sebenernya pengen kasih judul Virtual Earth is Dead, tapi kesannya nyari sensasi banget. Padahal kan cuman namanya aja yang berubah.
Anyway, back to the topic. Beberapa hari lalu saya mendapat Newsletter dari Microsoft yang berisi perubahan nama Virtual Earth menjadi Bing Maps for Enterprise. Dan berikut adalah cuplikan Newsletter-nya.
Virtual Earth is changing its name
We're excited to announce that Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is getting a new name.
With the launch of Bing™, the new decision engine from Microsoft, we've taken this opportunity to join up our mapping brands, and Microsoft Virtual Earth has changed to Bing Maps for Enterprise. Bing Maps for Enterprise is the mapping platform that underpins the Bing maps service (Bing.com/maps) and serves you and the thousands of organizations that use Microsoft mapping technology on their Web sites and in their applications. For more than 10 years, we have been providing mapping services to enterprises and organizations, and we continue to be committed to supporting you in achieving your goals. For more information on what this means, please check out our FAQ.
Check out the Bing Maps World Tour
The Bing Maps platform gets a makeover just about every month. We add new places, even better imagery and fresher views on locations near and far - to the tune of tens of terabytes of new content.
To bring the new Bing Maps additions to life, we've built an application (with some help from Silverlight and Azure), that shows this month and months past. You can sit back and watch us take you on a tour of the new hotspots or explore for yourself. And make sure you come back each month to see what's new.