Bing maps useless outside US?

I live in Poland, but Bing maps cannot find ANY streets! Street names can be seen on the maps, but search simply doesn't work. "No results found" for ANY address. Google maps had no problems with this. I also travel to Sweden frequently. Here search fails as soon as you use any accented characters. And it doesn't find alternative spellings. For instance, searching for an address like "Ö-street" using "O-street" would have worked in Google maps, but Bing map fails.
This makes Bing maps absolutely useless outside the US!!! Pretty poor!!!!!
Is HP not expecting US users to travel outside their country then? And does HP not care about users in non-English countries? I guess so.
Post relates to: Pre 2 p102una (Unlocked NA)

I can confirm that - Bing maps are useless in Poland. I don`t know why but it`s not possible to search using street names (on desktop & pre2 version).
@LazPL: did you try contacting with MS support? Maybe they know something?

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