Microsoft is starting to pick up the pace. In 2006 Microsoft acquired Seadragon Zooming Technologies, which allows for seamless zooming in and out of any image online. They've incorporated this into Bing maps with some other really cool features, such as interlacing live video and Microsoft and viewer submitted images. There are a lot of cool new things.
Check out Seadragon here, and try any image link online for yourself. Pretty cool stuff.
Just throw in the image link at the bottom or play with theirs (My images didn't tend to zoom in or be as incredible as theirs, but this is a very promising technology).
Watch a short demo of the coolest new features of Bing Maps by its lead designer here:
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