Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will drop the 3D layer in Bing Maps, but will introduce a non-Silverlight version of the product's "Bird's Eye" feature.

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.

Bing Maps just got a big ol’ update, bringing its own fancy 3D street view images as well as Twitter and Facebook integration.

Bing Maps Adds Streetside and 3D View for More Than 100 Cities Bing has announced a large maps update, including so-called Streetside imagery and additional 3-D cities on the Bing Maps Preview app.

Back in December, Microsoft launched Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1, giving users a touch-centric way to zoom in and around various cities across the globe. Fast-forward two months, and a ...

Bing announced a large maps update today, where they have added hundreds of Streetside images, 3D city images and new high resolution aerial images.

The environment that Microsoft has created is richer than Street View and brings “augmented reality” into Maps in a compelling way. Microsoft has also utilized its 3D mapping assets in ...

Microsoft’s Bing Maps team just announced a major update, introducing “street side views” (Bing’s answer to Google’s street view) to 64 new cities and 3D maps to 29 new cities.

Microsoft has released Bing Maps Preview for Windows 8.1, its Google Maps-rivaling navigation app with over seventy high-res 3D cities, Skype and OpenTable integration, street-level photography ...

Like its competitor, Google Maps, it provides easy access to satellite images and street maps - although Bing swaps out Google's Street View for its own 3D imaging. Mapping data is supplied by ...

Bing has just updated their Streetside and 3D city database. You'll now find over 100 new cities with new Streetside images and 3D map support.

In an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models ...