Microsoft’s Bing Maps Silverlight site is now out of beta (it was launched last month):
First off, if you go to the Bing Maps AJAX site and have Silverlight installed chances are you will be redirected to the Bing Maps Silverlight site (note this change only affects users in the US). We’re rolling this out with a small percentage of users increasing up to 100% of all users in a few weeks. If you don’t have Silverlight installed you can hit the AJAX site and will be prompted to install Silverlight (which you can opt out of, but WHY would you??). Well, to make the AJAX site a bit smoother we’ve introduced some new transitions in the tile loading process for panning and zooming. So you can have your Silverlight and AJAX too. If you don’t want to stay on the Silverlight site, you can opt out and return to the AJAX site (aka Bing Maps Classic) via the link on the Silverlight site.
Two new applications have also been added :
Destination Maps – Vector based route geometries on new map backgrounds
Local Events – Find something to do any day of the week
Can’t wait to see how it will all look like in the Windows Mobile 7 cause the current WinMo version isn’t the hottest thing around.
Source: Bing Maps blog
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