I was trying to build an itinerary for a planned trip across Europe using Live Search maps. I go to http://maps.live.com, click on the directions link, enter Tirana in the Start box and Thesaloniki in the End box. Everything is fine and the route with all the steps is displayed. However the distance is in miles!!! I check for a way to get the distance in km, but cannot find it. Let’s try the help, still no way. How can they make such a stupid mistake?!!! Do they think that everybody in the World is using miles? Do they know that the international standard is km? Seems they don’t, which I find very very strange. In the end, at least 20% of the people that visit live maps use it to get directions and more than half of them are not from USA, so they’re loosing at least 10% of their customers because of this stupid decision/mistake…
What they could do better:

• Since I’m getting directions in Europe, they should default to km.
• and in any case they should offer the option to switch between miles and km. Not everybody use miles for God’s sake.