http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Street Slide: it's electric! (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Agreed. If they would only bring streetside to Canadian cities like Toronto.]]>Jul 28th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/could not keep my eyes off.]]>Jul 28th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
I'm gonna go dress up as Waldo and wait on a street corner until the Street Slide mobile passes by ... and repeat until I'm seen in every city.]]>Jul 28th 2010 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
Google Street View is about to demise!


]]>Jul 28th 2010 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/I know, i hate MSFT for not patenting the damn thing, hopefully they did so with this though.
This is completely awesome!!! But watch how ppl still say how google maps street view is better.

Either way, Bing maps is pretty damn good now, but I do come across locations at times when I only have partial addresses to and find them harder to find than on google maps.

PS. Both google and bing need to work on a way to just simply input latitude and longitude coordinates onto their search bar (in any format) and have it just go there.]]>Jul 28th 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Trippy & awesome?
Meh, it's just a real world version of Tir Nar Nog, with the flipping from side to side of the street and down adjoining streets (okay, it is waaay more advanced but it has been almost 30 years since it was released - times have moved on).

God I feel old now :-(]]>Jul 28th 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
Agreed, I think it's very promising.

One, I would have the bottom-right map rotate the text to match upright view.

Second, I would ask that Google update their Street View bubble images to a higher resolution, as when viewing it from city to city, we get a blend of low resolution and high resolution pictures that make it hard to determine what's what in the distance (say a strip mall).]]>Jul 28th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
I like the innovation pace of Microsoft Bing. It's keeping a good pressure on Google and it's awesome for competition and ultimately awesome for the client.

If I was MS I would keep those nice eye candy features for WP7.]]>Jul 28th 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
I love this but dont want to have to launch another map app just to use it and I wont be dropping Google Maps (assuming they will even let Android devices access the mobile app)

Really good job M$]]>Jul 28th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
i didnt think i would ever say this but Bing is ahead of google in a lot of areas right now.

the map design with the logos at the bottom is Brilliant!!!!!!


]]>Jul 28th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
Awesome looking, efficient and the next level for street view! Microsoft will kill it with this. And those who say Bing is behind google in efficiency you better go back and check. Microsoft is upping the ante and Google better watch it. ]]>Jul 28th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/> stupid mac fanboy
I do not why you silly guys start insulting before knowing the facts.
I am actually a Windows developer, using two PCs (Windows 7 and XP) at work and two PCs (Vista and XP) at home (the Vista PC is new and the plan is to upgrade to Windows 7).
At least for both the Windows 7 and Vista I use them without the UAC, the file copy is still slower than my 4-year XP running Pentium 4, you want more?]]>Jul 28th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/c++]]>Jul 28th 2010 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
It is, all of bing runs on Asp.Net MVC as far as I am aware. (I know bing search does, at least).]]>Aug 11th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
Not exactly. Microsoft already has Bing maps.... with aerial views and that awesome "Bird's Eye" 3/4 view. This is just the next step.

In contrast... Courier was new hardware, software and a bunch of other stuff they would have to create from scratch.

I bet we'll see this soon. Courier was just a CGI render of a concept... this video looks like it's actually working.]]>Jul 28th 2010 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/They are already porting it to the iPhone as the presenter said. That means it is not a tech demo anymore and now is a product. Did you watch it at all?]]>Jul 28th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Google will smash this into the ground with an update of street view.
Nice try, Microsoft. I almost feel sad for you.]]>Jul 28th 2010 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/I'm not sure why Google can't do this and roll it out long before Microsoft. They have the Street View images. Based on Microsoft's video, it seems that Google would only have to come up with an algorithm that would slice the images together to give the appearance of a horizontal street, and we all know how good Google is with algorithms.]]>Jul 28th 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
They still need some of the added features Google has but in visual street view aspect they're way ahead of google.]]>Jul 28th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Jul 28th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/
I don't know. ]]>Jul 28th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/microsoft-street-slide-its-electric-video/Aug 4th 2010 9:36PM