Differences between Google-Maps and Bing-Maps are becoming visible. Bing-Maps seem to have been well planned from a viewpoint of actual conditions of common office works in Japan. As above figure in typical magnification scale shows, every prefecture name is displayed on Bing-maps, while major prefectural capital city names are displayed on Google-maps. On the right map, place-names of Kyoto, Nara and Shiga are not displayed. Information management by prefecture name is quite universal in various documentations in Japan. Therefore, the left map would be copy&pasted more frequently than right map as an auxiliary map at various occasions such as brief presentations or small meetings. In addition, as most Japanese people can't understand Hangeul characters, romanized Korean place names display is also convenient.
They would say that this is a slight difference. But, we should notice that the Windows oligopoly have been formed by long-term accumulation of such slight differences.
