Small ISV's - do you really feel like Microsoft cares about you any more?
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Hi, I think you've probably got a lot of mostly helpful feedback from this thread already so there isn't much more to add except my personal pet peeve which is that Bing Maps has no licensing option for ISV's who make Windows based apps for small business. I've been emailing and asking for something for years (well before it became Bing Maps) and though everyone is nice and agrees that it makes little sense that Microsoft doesn't have a license option suitable to get yet more revenue out of their pricey map data they had to pay for, no one manages to accomplish anything. There is no technical reason we can't use Bing Maps with windows software but the license doesn't support it: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/licensing.aspx[^] In short I want our customers who use our windows desktop software to be able to work with their data plotted on Bing Maps. Technically more than feasible but the licensing doesn't support it. Get that fixed and I'll truly believe Microsoft cares about ISV's and small business end users.
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Hi John, I haven't forgotten about you I'm working with the bing maps team to get the answer.
Unless something drastic has changed you're really wasting your time, you'll get endless positive responses that make you *feel* like they care and something might happen but in the end it will be fruitless. I appreciate it anyway.
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