MSN to Launch Virtual Earth but is it a Google maps killer?

So will MSN Virtual Earth be a Google Maps Killer? Who knows but officially its live on Monday I guess. I heard about it as it was leaked through Scoble's blog but even he didn't link directly to it. He does give a little glimpse of how it got out.

After seeing what the moon is really made of from Google Moon last week, its seems that the MSN Virtual Earth team have some catch up to do to establish credibility, but it sure is nice to finally see another software company truly pushing Microsoft to innovate and compete. Its been a while since they've had some tough competition that Microsoft couldn't just buy.

I love Google, but I like pulling for the underdog, which strangely happens to be Microsoft in this case.