Microsoft is taking another shot at Google’s Maps supremacy with a public preview of its Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1. While the company already offers a Maps app, the new preview features ...

Comparisons between Bing Maps and Google Maps slice both ways. Google Maps has arguably grown somewhat bloated, but Bing has lacked some of the conveniences its rival offers. With a preview update ...

Just out of the Gmail Labs is a Google Maps preview function, which appends a miniature map—with full scaling, zoom, and other Maps features—to the bottom of any message containing a Maps link. As ...

Despite Microsoft’s sell-off of the tech and talent underlying Bing Maps last week, the company has now signaled its intention to stay in the mapping game: Microsoft today announced an overhauled Bing ...

If you prefer Bing Maps as your go-to navigation tool, the software's preview version received a big redesign. Focused primarily on helping you plan trips, a load of new features aim to make it easier ...

Most importantly, because the Bing Maps Preview was built for Windows 8.1, Microsoft says it “works well” on both touch and desktop devices. It also takes advantage of Windows-specific features like ...

Previously, you had to go through an invite system to access the preview of the new Google Maps for desktop, which debuted in May at the company’s Google I/O 2013 conference. Now invites are no longer ...