Comments on: Microsoft adds great new features to Live Maps, blocks UK visitors. http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors GoogleSightseeing.com Company Blog Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason Davies http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3649 Jason Davies Tue, 20 May 2008 08:35:51 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3649 <p>I must say I'm impressed by the latest Live Maps. Multimap definitely lost out to Google Maps a while ago. Hopefully a bit of competition from Live Maps will generate more innovation!</p> I must say I’m impressed by the latest Live Maps. Multimap definitely lost out to Google Maps a while ago. Hopefully a bit of competition from Live Maps will generate more innovation!

]]> By: Andor Chen http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3636 Andor Chen Mon, 12 May 2008 01:32:39 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3636 <p>well~</p> well~

]]> By: Alex Turnbull http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3591 Alex Turnbull Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:35:21 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3591 <p>It would appear Microsoft have reversed their decision, as I'm now seeing the correct page, and not Multimap.</p> <p>I wonder how Multimap feel about that?</p> It would appear Microsoft have reversed their decision, as I’m now seeing the correct page, and not Multimap.

I wonder how Multimap feel about that?

]]> By: Jeff http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3588 Jeff Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:59:29 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3588 <p>Looks like I'm going back to Google Maps as there is no way I'm using old fashioned Multimaps. Whoever made the decision to direct all UK traffic from maps.live.com to multimap.com deserves to be fired! I have hears that some other countries such as Australia are also being diverted to MultiCrap too. Fix up Microsoft or everybody will go back to using Google Maps!</p> Looks like I’m going back to Google Maps as there is no way I’m using old fashioned Multimaps. Whoever made the decision to direct all UK traffic from maps.live.com to multimap.com deserves to be fired! I have hears that some other countries such as Australia are also being diverted to MultiCrap too. Fix up Microsoft or everybody will go back to using Google Maps!

]]> By: Nick Marsh http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3581 Nick Marsh Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:49:30 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3581 <p>Please join the Facebook group campaigning against the change to Multimap in the UK:</p> <p>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14574166409&ref=mf</p> Please join the Facebook group campaigning against the change to Multimap in the UK:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14574166409&ref=mf

]]> By: Andrew Emmett http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3578 Andrew Emmett Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:17:39 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3578 <p>Like all other live maps users, WTF is going on... Live maps better be back or I'm going to google!!! I am sooooooo pissed of with this... Like so many others, I've been trying to convert people to live maps & then you slap up in the face with this!!! As nan would say "What a load of ol sh1t!!"</p> Like all other live maps users, WTF is going on… Live maps better be back or I’m going to google!!! I am sooooooo pissed of with this… Like so many others, I’ve been trying to convert people to live maps & then you slap up in the face with this!!! As nan would say “What a load of ol sh1t!!”

]]> By: Justin Drerup http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3572 Justin Drerup Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:22:23 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3572 <p>What about all the map 'Collections' which I saved at maps.live.com - they don't seem to be available to me at Multimap. I share these maps with many people and regularly use them for personal use.</p> <p>There is a good reason I've been using map.live.com over Multimap for a while. Microsoft - what are you doing forcing us to use this site!</p> <p>I'm a big Microsoft fan however you have just lost me to Google Maps...</p> What about all the map ‘Collections’ which I saved at maps.live.com – they don’t seem to be available to me at Multimap. I share these maps with many people and regularly use them for personal use.

There is a good reason I’ve been using map.live.com over Multimap for a while. Microsoft – what are you doing forcing us to use this site!

I’m a big Microsoft fan however you have just lost me to Google Maps…

]]> By: Hugo http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3571 Hugo Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:12:50 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3571 <p>Microsoft, the gloves are off on this one.</p> <p>This was a SH1T decision and it's made me FURIOUS. Until yesterday I was singing the praises of Live Maps and getting everyone to move over from Google... and now I'll have to go back to them all and tell them to ignore what I said. It's now absolutely unusable.</p> <p>By the looks of the posts flooding other blogs, everyone else feels the same way. How on earth could you not have predicted this would happen?</p> <p>I'll now have to devote my time to finding a way around your geolocation so that I can pretend to be anywhere but the UK. If I can't do that, then it's bye bye Microsoft, hello Google.</p> Microsoft, the gloves are off on this one.

This was a SH1T decision and it’s made me FURIOUS. Until yesterday I was singing the praises of Live Maps and getting everyone to move over from Google… and now I’ll have to go back to them all and tell them to ignore what I said. It’s now absolutely unusable.

By the looks of the posts flooding other blogs, everyone else feels the same way. How on earth could you not have predicted this would happen?

I’ll now have to devote my time to finding a way around your geolocation so that I can pretend to be anywhere but the UK. If I can’t do that, then it’s bye bye Microsoft, hello Google.

]]> By: Jonathan http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3570 Jonathan Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:14:49 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3570 <p>@Sam: I presume you meant "...to English (US)". Some of us won't do this as we resent the incursion of American English into British life as it is. While I doubt many websites use that setting to provide content in a different type of English, it will go into the server's logfiles and show in up statistics, etc., ultimately leading to the impression that more people use American English than actually do. In the same way, I won't change my browser identification to show I'm using Internet Exploder just because some badly-written sites won't allow visitors to use Firefox. If you're British, be proud of it; don't go around telling everyone you're American! There is actually a Firefox extension that allows you to send "fake" browser ID strings to selected sites only, which may be one solution.</p> @Sam: I presume you meant “…to English (US)”. Some of us won’t do this as we resent the incursion of American English into British life as it is. While I doubt many websites use that setting to provide content in a different type of English, it will go into the server’s logfiles and show in up statistics, etc., ultimately leading to the impression that more people use American English than actually do. In the same way, I won’t change my browser identification to show I’m using Internet Exploder just because some badly-written sites won’t allow visitors to use Firefox. If you’re British, be proud of it; don’t go around telling everyone you’re American! There is actually a Firefox extension that allows you to send “fake” browser ID strings to selected sites only, which may be one solution.

]]> By: Sam http://rotacoo.com/microsoft-adds-great-new-features-to-live-maps-blocks-uk-visitors/comment-page-1#comment-3569 Sam Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:51:44 +0000 http://rotacoo.com/?p=66#comment-3569 <p>There's another way round this. In your web browser, change the preferred language for displaying pages from English (UK) to English (UK). In IE7 this is under Tools, Internet Options, General tab then look under the Appearance section and click "Languages". In Firefox, this is under Tools, Options, General tab, then click Choose and change the default language to English/United States(en-us).</p> <p>Works perfectly!</p> There’s another way round this. In your web browser, change the preferred language for displaying pages from English (UK) to English (UK). In IE7 this is under Tools, Internet Options, General tab then look under the Appearance section and click “Languages”. In Firefox, this is under Tools, Options, General tab, then click Choose and change the default language to English/United States(en-us).

Works perfectly!

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