I feel I owe this post to my friend Clint.
On the weekend I went down to hang out and visit with a bunch of guys I have been gaming with for years in the Seattle area.
I got a call from Clint and just asked him to give me his address so I could look it up on google maps/directions and head out there. He immediately corrected me and told me I meant to say “Bing” maps. I kind of yes’d him, and told him I would look it up on Bing. I got off the phone and opened up Bing. I spent about 10 seconds and I because I was in a hurry, switched over to the more familiar Google maps site. I wrote down the directions on a piece of paper and we headed out to our location.
We drove up and down a road looking for a step in the directions for 20 minutes, which was quite rage inducing. Finally I had to call him. He told me that I had some roads mixed up and I needed to turn on a couple different roads first. I chalked it up to me writing it down wrong when I was copying the directions.
Later that evening, when we got home, my wife pulled up the google directions. Turns out I had written them down correctly, they were just wrong! She then looked up Bing, and they would have gotten us there perfectly.
I am a pretty big fan of both Microsoft and Google, but in the first time competing head to head for my approval. Microsoft wins the round.