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Bing Maps requires Silverlight for some features. I found that out when I tried Bing recently, but found that Microsoft is more interested in pushing their own
by avar 16y ago
Bing Maps requires Silverlight for some features. I found that out when I tried Bing recently, but found that Microsoft is more interested in pushing their own technology than pushing their search engine.
Microsoft also recently did a project with NASA that requires Silverlight. Thanks, Microsoft.
- generalk 16y agoTo be fair, if you wrote a browser plugin like Silverlight, wouldn't you do the majority of your projects in it?
- avar 16y agoThe effort to port it to Flash or JavaScript as a fallback mechanism is hardly a major undertaking for a company like Microsoft. That they're doing this when that means blocking out a huge portion of users on Bing Maps when their main competitor has no such portability problems I think says a great deal about their priorities.
- mcav 16y agoYou can't port Silverlight to Flash or Javascript because Flash and Javascript don't provide direct system access needed to emulate many of Silverlight's features.
- PhrosTT 16y agothe SL enabled Bing Maps is amazing. Try it if you haven't. - hit the 3D button.