Comments on: MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)

By: SpaceCat85

SpaceCat85 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:30:24 +0000

It doesn’t seem to work on Macs because of User Agent sniffing. This isn’t the preferred solution, but if you change your browser’s user agent to one for a Windows version of Firefox 2, it’ll give you the “nice” version with Bird’s Eye View. If you need to manually enter in settings into the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox or similar, these will work:

User agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
App name: Netscape
App version: 5.0 (Windows; en-US)
Platform: Win32

If you’re using Safari, you can enable a “Debug” menu via Tinkertool or a Terminal command and use the “Firefox 2.0″ option in the User Agent part of that menu.

By: Caspar

Caspar — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:00:50 +0000

It probably has to do with the reliance on the .NET framework. Which isn’t available for OSX (ignoring the Mono framework).

By: Alan Grossmith

Alan Grossmith — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:51:55 +0000

Hi,

I have tried to find on the net any detail as to why live.com/maps is great on a pc (birds eye views etc) but when you go to the same address on an apple mac it is some dreadful version of a directory enquiry. Have Microsoft yet again got it in for apple mac owners? Does anyone out there no the answer as could not find it on the net? Many thanks.
Alan Grossmith