Maps Blog

This is your One Month Warning! Bing Maps for Enterprise Basic Accounts will no longer function after June 30th, 2025. To avoid being impacted, you will either need to purchase a license or migrate to Azure Maps before this date!

OnTerra, a Microsoft Partner, offers RouteSavvy API PLUS as great alternative to Bing Maps Multi-Itinerary Optimization API. Given the impending retirement of Bing Maps Multi-Itinerary Optimization API on June 30th, 2025, Bing Maps for Enterprise customers looking for an alternative to migrate to for Bing Maps Multi-Itinerary Optimization API can consider moving to OnTerra Systems’ RouteSavvy API PLUS.   

If you are looking for some helpful webinars to assist you in migrating from Bing Maps for Enterprise to Azure Maps, then you have come to the right blog! 

The Windows UWP Map control and Windows Maps platform APIs within Windows have been deprecated as of April 8, 2025. The Maps UWP Control and Maps platform support within Windows will continue to function but will not be updated. For more information, see Resources for deprecated features.

Bing Maps for Enterprise will be retired on June 30, 2028. Existing Bing Maps for Enterprise customers can continue to license Bing Maps for Enterprise APIs and services until June 30, 2028. Customers on the free and basic license for Bing Maps for Enterprise have until June 30, 2025.

NORAD is once again set to track Santa with the help of Microsoft Bing Maps and an AI elf named Radar. You can ask Radar anything you want to know about Santa and NORAD

We are encouraging existing Bing Maps for Enterprise customers to move to Azure Maps as it is our best in class Maps API platform, is served by the same great Bing Maps data and services and is where our innovation efforts will be focused.

Typical commutes just cover home to work and back but what if you have more places to commute to on a regular basis?  Based on your feedback, Bing Maps allows you to commute to more places with Bing Maps on Android!

We are thrilled to announce the unification of Bing Maps for Enterprise (BME) with Azure Maps, marking a significant milestone in our geospatial services at Microsoft. Azure Maps now boasts a robust stack of geospatial offerings, leveraging the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Maps, which also drives Bing Maps, our consumer maps experience. Over the past year, our team has dedicated significant time and effort to combine the strengths of Bing Maps for Enterprise into Azure Maps, enhancing our global quality and coverage.

In our data-centric world, a great way to get the most from data is by using Power BI and Maps. You’re about to learn about the importance of geographical analytics. We’ll also explain what makes Microsoft Maps integration in Power BI a great platform for presenting geospatial analytics.