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 7/10 Very Good --- blog.wired.com http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/atom.xml
| Wired.com weighs in on the latest science news, including space, biology, disease, drugs and alcohol, geology, math, neuroscience, and physics. ... |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 --- 70 days ago http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/will-microsoft.html
Microsoft released a beta heavens-viewing application yesterday called Worldwide Telescope . It's so nice, apparently, that even some astronomers are playing with it.
“Exploring the virtual universe is incredibly smooth and seamless like
a top-of-the-line computer game, but also the science is correct,” Alexander Szalay, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns
Hopkins, told the New York Times .
Our own Scott Gilbertson called the imagery "stunning." By some accounts, it's even better than the competition, Google Sky .
But I wouldn't know because Microsoft only released its virtual 'scope for the PC. Us poor Mac users got left in that strange white room with our snarky advertising avatar .
I called up Microsoft's press person to beg and plead for a Mac version, but sadly, Julie Woodbury of
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide could only say: We're focused on optimizing it for Windows and there are no announced plans for the Mac OS. Dang! Although she did say it would run with BaseCamp. Anyone tried that yet?
Image: Don't expect to see this galaxy on Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope. ... |
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