Officially launched later this month, the WorldWide Telescope will compete directly with Google rival Google Sky's service.
To develop a new "star-watching" tool, Microsoft used the Visual Experience Engine platform.
The company then blends with billions of TB of data and images obtained from telescopes around the world, including the Hubble glasses.
"The WorldWide Telescope synthesizes extremely complex data blocks - collected from various telescopes over the years - and brings them to users," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced in a post. speech in Jakarta, Indonesia.
"It is a diverse, colorful and richly virtualized environment, operating as a virtual telescope , " Gates continued.
Users can freely choose their viewing angles from different telescopes, even changing the wavelength of light to observe the image they want.
In addition, the WorldWide Telescope offers a range of interactive links, leading to audio and video presentation files so that users have more information about the space they are observing.
The mission of the WorldWide Telescope is to "turn personal computers into space observatories", expanding the vision and imagination for users.
The war is open
Earlier, the search giant's Google Sky service was officially launched in August last year and quickly attracted a large fan base.
"Tools like the WorldWide Telescope and Google Sky will change the way we approach and study astronomy," commented Dr Roy Gould of the Harvard Astronomical Center.
In the early stages, the WorldWide Telescope project holds information about about 300 different galaxies.
With the advent of WorldWide Telescope, the battle between Microsoft and Google to win over the position The Internet host has taken a step further.
In the past few years, these two giants have been running one after another, with the ambition to build monuments about themselves as "Web's No. 1 Software Platform".
In 2006, Google launched a free Google Apps package, with many programs competing with Microsoft's famous Office software package.
Using Google Apps, you are also equipped with text editing software, Excel spreadsheets and presentation tools without paying a single dollar.
Microsoft immediately responded with a strategy called Software-as-a-Service, whereby the company would partially migrate its application portfolio to the Web.