Microsoft reaches for the sky (redux)
In a previous post, I noted that Microsoft had announced that it was going to introduce software that would compete with Google Sky. The software is now available and Search Engine Land says:
Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the software, but then you’re treated to a beautiful array of images and “guided tours” of the cosmos (see screenshots below). Intended for science education, “Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky”
Note that this is still an old-fashioned desktop application and is not a Web based application.
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