Today, we are starting the migration period for the Bing Maps Platform. We began gradually rolling out the new TomTom base map data to users and Microsoft first party products in March 2020. As a result, Bing Maps is switching to TomTom for base map data for regions outside of China, Japan, and South Korea. The partnership with TomTom enhances our mapping portfolio, helping us deliver the best mapping experience across multiple platforms. In February of 2019, Microsoft and TomTom announced an expansion of our existing partnership to incorporate all of TomTom’s map and traffic data into a multitude of mapping scenarios across Microsoft Azure and Bing, in addition to powering Azure Maps. The Bing Maps Platform is powered by multiple data providers and, to ensure it is using the best data, that mix of providers evolves and improves over time. * and it still works AND gets regular map updates, even though the Windows Phone 8.1 platform is now untenable as a whole.
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