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Windows Live Maps has made the mistake of misidentifying a small pond for the Atlantic Ocean. This is quite a huge mistake. Google Maps is recommended.

Mistake

A mistake is failing to perform an action succesfully and without failure. All humans make mistakes.

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest Ocean on the planet Earth. The total size (area) of the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 106.4 million square kilometres, which is 41.1 million square miles.

Pond

A pond is a small localised body of water. Communities often gather around popular ponds due to the wildlife which is easily observed within them.

Windows Live Maps

Windows Live Maps is a Microsoft online mapping solution, similar in nature to Multimap or Google Maps.

Maps

A map is a overhead view or rendering of an area. The main purpose of a map to assist humans with navigation around an area they are unfamiliar with.

Live

Live means non-recorded or being shown 'right now'. It also short short-hand onlinef for Microsoft Windows Live which is both a search engine and a variety of other Microsoft services.

Windows Live

Windows Live is a Microsoft online initiative to bring the Microsoft Windows operating systems and some of its functionality online in order to emphasis the cloud computing paradigm.

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced previously. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, IDC Vice President Avneesh Saxena stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market. The most recent client version of Windows is Windows Vista. The current server version of Windows is Windows Server 2008.

Google Maps

Google Maps is a service provided my Google which aims to provide over-head digital map rendering and satellite imagery to aid in navigation. Google Maps also provides the ability to draw out routes to receive textual directions and instructions.

Google

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31, 2007). It is the largest American company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (as of October 31, 2007).

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