Bing Canada, now with fancier backgrounds :) | The Coffeehouse

dentaku

I just noticed that Bing Canada now has the special background images with hotspots and such just like the US version.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

That is a good looking image today.

btw, this CA blog is one of my new favorites. http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/tags/Mini-tutorial/default.aspx

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

I especially like the little hotspots within the image that ilnk to information about the photo's subject -- today the UK has Tower Bridge in London.

Herbie

armbrat
Ricky

When I go to bing.ca it has an image of NYC...

cro

Bing Canada English. No hotspots for the french version Big Smile .

armbrat
Ricky

In reply to cro

#Jul 13th @ 10:11 AM

The French version shows NYC too. Maybe it's the proxy at work...

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

In reply to armbrat

#Jul 13th @ 10:09 AM

Smiley Guess that is why I liked it. It is nyc.

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In reply to staceyw

#Jul 13th @ 10:31 AM

From looking through the various countries, it looks like there are at least four versions of the Bing homepage: a "US" version with hotspots (which very rarely actually shows US locations, but it's the version you get in the US), a British version with hotspots, an Australian version with hotspots (or is this one tomorrow's US version?), and an "everywhere else" version with no hotspots. All three show different pictures. Today, the US version's showing Central Park in NYC, the British version's showing the Tower Bridge, the Australian version's showing Paris, and I don't recognize what the "everywhere else" version is showing.

Looks like Canada and France (and maybe some others; I didn't look through the whole list) get the US version and the British version is exclusive to Britain.