Comments on: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released

By: filip

filip — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:03:10 +0000

I have a clean windows partition with all updates and all possible .net versions and this thing still does not work! Maybe I got too soft from all the time spent with Ubuntu and forgot how real brave men fight with windows on a daily basis…

By: casto

casto — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:43:24 +0000

I agree with Chris. Although this is a first public release BETA, it should be perfect in every aspect. It should also include a real-time super duper telescope capable of allowing millions of users to log-in via the web to use it simultaneously. For free.

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WorldWide Telescope de Microsoft ya se encuentra disponible — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:06:40 +0000

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By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:36:09 +0000

@32: WWT is online. Where do you think the pictures come from? I don’t have terabytes of astronomy photos sitting on my harddrive.
I see you haven’t checked out the Community tab in WWT. MS has already beaten you and Google to the punch.
You can already control telescopes in ASCOM using WWT. You can use .Net to extend WWT’s functionality, so you can easily code your own remote telescoping feature.

@7: You mean like how it took Google 3 years to get simple POP3 functionality into Gmail? How it can’t manage basic security that even AOL has in place to stop mass spammers? Or how it had to buy Google Sky? and Google Earth? and Writely? and Jotspot? And…(long story short: everything “innovative” at Google is something they bought, except for the search engine itself)

By: Bill Gheytes

Bill Gheytes — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:15:10 +0000

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:33:37 +0000

Microsoft’s WWT compared to Google Sky is way better. I just downloaded WWT and it’s awesome (even if it’s just for Windows right now). I did a few of the guided tours made by others and it’s like sitting and think that’s one of the WWT’s best features besides the sleek design of WWT and tons of features. Google Sky is ok and it’s only good feature is that it’s web based. I think people like Chris fail to understand what WWT is for. Also, Chris, Google has an astronomy product out! It’s called Google Sky so go complain about that now.

By: Masseratti

Masseratti — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:35 +0000

Never touch anything coming from M$
Never trust them
Never digg them

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Tue, 13 May 2008 14:44:40 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:53:38 +0000

@19

“I don’t think there are too many ’super powerful’ telescopes out there for free use. ”

I hate to tell you this, but Bill Gates and Microsoft are super rich. They could buy a mountain, carve a hole into it, and put 100 high power telescopes all around the circumference for people to share online for trivial non-research and it wouldn’t effect their bottom line at all.

So could Google.

If this made Robert cry, then Robert hasn’t been to an observatory or planetarium in years. Nor has he so much as looked through an actual telescope. The rest of us probably hit the planetarium or observatory at least once a year. Heck you have to go if you go to school at some point in your life.

So all in all, I stick with my original comment.

The pro tours are nice, but ultimately the internet is about user generated content.

When Google does theirs it should be

A. Online

B. It should allow people to share their telescopes with ASCOM or other drivers in real time online and allow for virtual telescope time sharing. That way if you can’t build 10000 telescopes for people to use, at least they can share their own through the web.

C. It should be WAY more community focused. Like MySpace but with telescope devices attached. It should also notify via SMS and email of events through the website.

If a telescope is scanning for X event through a set of x,y,z to x2,y2,z2 coordinates, Google software should be able to automatically detect whatever it was looking for and send out email alerts. That way your telescope can be on autopilot until X event is found.

It should do this all through the web.
It should be community driven.

By: Ian On The Red Dot :: The Application That Made Scoble Cry

Ian On The Red Dot :: The Application That Made Scoble Cry — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:55:48 +0000

[...] I downloaded the application and tried it out. Somehow, the default user interface of the application just seems better than what you get when trying to explore the sky with Google Earth. In the end, maybe among the astronomy buffs and the techies in the know, WorldWide Telescope isn’t much better than Google Earth or maybe even not on par. But, in terms of selling an idea, I think Microsoft has done a better job than Google. Unfortunately, some people can’t get beyond the fact that this product is from Microsoft and judge it on its own merits – see the comments on TechCrunch. [...]

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By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:24:29 +0000

Will we eventually be able to connect directly to satellites and see ourselves from the sky in real time?

By: qmmmr دردشة

qmmmr دردشة — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:55 +0000

It's good to be technical telescope in the hands of everyone is better to be monopolizing At least litres compete better in this area دردشة

By: Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space | Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot

Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space | Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:33:10 +0000

[...] seems like WorldWide Telescope is now available for people to download by Mac and PC users around the world. It’s a pretty heavy application [...]

By: Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot

Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:32:47 +0000

Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space…

It seems like WorldWide Telescope is now available for people to download by Mac and PC users around the world. It’s a pretty heavy application so make sure you have a decent PC to run it on. It needs 1Gb of RAM with 2Gb recommended, 1Gb of hard …

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Tue, 13 May 2008 09:21:30 +0000

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By: ajay

ajay — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:23:36 +0000

why not try microsoft wordwide telescope.

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:15:24 +0000

@Quikboy – You say “I’m guessing MS doesn’t want to push people into [Silverlight] [...] to make them look like meanies.”

What!?

Thought it interesting you run a dedicated site called “Microsoft & The Future” “I mainly write about things that I think Microsoft could improve and enhance. My main topics are usually about MSN/Windows Live, Zune, and I dabble with other Microsoft stuff. I hope you like my blog.”

lol.

By: john

john — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:10:56 +0000

don’t you love it?

“I hate how people hate Microsoft so much.. i dont get it.”

then, in the SAME post:

“Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope has crashed on me, I keep getting an error and I can no proceed.”

hmmm…

By: golimpio

golimpio — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:03:42 +0000

Try Google Sky
http://www.google.com/sky/

Works well on Ubuntu…

By: Martin Owen

Martin Owen — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:55:26 +0000

What is al the fuss about? Quite a few organisations have been making robotic telescopes available to schools and astronomy societies for quite some time. (google school observatory robotic telescope).

Some of these are ’scopes on the other side of the world (so you can look at the sky during your daytime) and in good locations eg Las Palmas…

By: hahahah

hahahah — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:49:58 +0000

Hi I am a mac
And I am a PC

Mac: What are you doing Pc?
PC: Using telescope

Mac: but I am young and cool.
Pc: you also have 3 STDs and are shallow cause you’re a shallow pop culture wh*re.

Yay flavor of the month!

By: Calley

Calley — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:44:50 +0000

in the hollywood hills we only use telescopes to see into our neighbors houses. let me know when someone comes out with that one.