Microsoft debuted a true analogue to Google Earth on Thursday, launching a Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1 that moves Maps into true 3D. The new app, available in the Windows Store, even ...

The latest enhancement to the Windows Live Search service provides photorealistic views of cities and interactive data like Yellow Pages listings and driving directions Microsoft has enhanced its ...

Microsoft Excel comes packed with several predefined table styles for you to choose from. If you want to format a table, your best bet is to choose from one of the many styles. Now, if the predefined ...

What do you think of when you see the words "Microsoft Excel?" For many, it's "cells," "numbers," and "formulas." However, there's much more to the program than that ...

A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and mapping company TomTom is releasing data that could enable developers to build their own maps to take on Google Map and Apple Maps. The group, called the ...

Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...

As impressive as the simulated world is, Google 3D maps often provides more detailed images of what's on the ground. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A new 3D “heartbeat” tapping through stereo headphones is bringing pedestrians more independence and confidence while they navigate through cities. Three years in the making, Microsoft’s Soundscape ...

A visitor at the Musée des Plans-Reliefs in Paris uses Microsoft HoloLens to get a mixed reality experience around a 3D relief map of the landmark Mont-Saint-Michel. (Microsoft Photo) The historic ...