Exactly, I mean there is no morality to this as its just another zero-sum game. So they have to compete and make the other guy look bad, but Microsoft sure does,a lot of negative PR against google, kinda making you think that they are starting to look a little desperate. Meanwhile, google is untaxed by whatever msft does and doesn't resort to that kind of thing.

This reminds me of Apple getting ride of Maps and YouTube... I feel for you WindowsPhone users!

All the changes do are redirecting users to google.com where windows phone users can just type in google maps through the search and use it there, or they can use bing maps.  Some of the msft fans like koweniki have recommended bing maps , so I'm sure that it will work fine.

"War has changed..." - Solid Snake

I thought the article stated that Google Maps wouldn't work at all on WP, even on IE?

Bing isn't all too good in my opinion.

Correct, so the user would have to use a safari or chrome browser on that platform.  I don't know if this is possible, but if msft isn't hypocritical, then they would open up their platform to safari or chrome to allow for google maps if it is such a big deal.

I'm not sure if WP allows Chrome, I'm sure it doesn't allow Safari though. 

WP doesn't seem to have many options out there, which is sad.

I forgive you.

If Google wanted to be really evil, why can't they remove YouTube, maps and whatever other services they make that are popular from all Iphone and Windows phones? They could have it only on Android and that would really hurt Apple.

That's not "evil" per se.  How would it hurt somebody, by denying them access to YouTube?