[citation][nom]ingtar33[/nom]need to check your sources tom's... i read the original article, the author admits error with his report. Users were mistaking the Bing redirect for being Google Maps for years on windows phones (because bing maps is a cheap knock off i guess that makes sense)... google maps has never been available on windows phones. The original article made windows phone users realize that they couldn't get maps, and were being redirected to Bing... they mistakenly thought this was a new thing, and as a result the net was flooded with a fake controversy.[/citation]
That's wrong, Google have admitted that they have recently added a redirect against all users how navigate to maps.google.com (or in fact any local google domain, co.uk, .fr etc), previously users could navigate to google maps (no matter how bad the experience actually was)...
What google have stated though is that they have never officially supported maps on windows phone, but did not previously actively block anything.