Aaah good, one of my pet hates in local.live.com (Microsoft’s answer to Google Maps) has now been fixed. The oblique ‘birds-eye‘ view now supports continuous scrolling — it used to require the user to manually select photos as they moved around for any great distance.
The Microsoft offering has some pretty up-to-date imagery, and beats Google for quality in some local areas (the map I was looking for was in Southampton)