Azerbaijan, Baku, August 10 / Trend G. Veliyev /
Microsoft company corrects its information to reflect world consensus about Nagotno-Karabakh as essential part of Azerbaijan, press-service of Microsoft Azerbaijan said.
Microsoft Azerbaijan said that entire cartographic information of the corporation is being updated now. Afterwards, map of the Azerbaijani Republic at Bing Maps will contain all necessary changes in 2009.
Mistake was made regarding information placed at MSN Weather portal. The mistake will be corrected soon. Nagorno-Karabakh was indicated as separate state in the list of counties in Weather section of Microsoft-MSN corporation website.
According to Microsoft's statement, the corporation recognizes territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and takes into account that there are different, sometimes, contrary views on geography in the world. Moreover, Microsoft considers practice and opinion of the international community, as well as independent academic and research organizations while presenting geographic materials.
Regarding Encarta maps, this product will not be renewed as entire production line of Encarta was phased out.
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