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Finally, for the first time in a decade, the folks at Microsoft is giving MSN a major face-lift, in an effort to funnel more people to Bing, the tech giant’s search engine. Dubbed as “one of the best home pages on the web”, the newly-revamped MSN comes in a much neater and less cluttered layout (a clean-looking navigation bar with News, Entertainment, Sports, Money and Lifestyle) as compared to the old MSN homepage, which has 45 clickable links in the top two inches of the page. Besides that, a white background will replace the ‘ugly’ blue background, which doesn’t looks too outstanding to me.
Just like Yahoo!’s redesign three months ago, Microsoft will integrate popular social networking website like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Flickr, and Pandora to its new home page. People no longer have to jump from site to site to update their status, tweets or see what their friends are up to; the new home page makes it easy to view and update in-line.
Microsoft executives said that MSN will also embrace the latest customer trends by deeply integrating powerful search from Bing. The Bing integration on the new home page helps people make faster and more informed decisions and easily find the information they want from anywhere on the Web. For instance, local information, like weather, movies, restaurants and traffic, that is easily accessible on Bing will be equally easy to find on MSN.
“Now is the time to clean up the mess on the Web — people need less clutter and less hassle to find what matters most to them,” said Erik Jorgensen, corporate vice president, Microsoft. “Microsoft is uniquely invested in search, media experiences and technical innovation. Combining these assets to deliver our new MSN home page is a tremendous win for customers and advertisers.”
“Customers told us they want the latest information from their favorite sources, their friends and the breadth of the Web — and the new MSN home page delivers via a fresh new look and new features,” Jorgensen said. “Today is an important transformation for MSN, and it’s just the beginning.”
The new home page will deliver comprehensive local information from the new MSN local information offering, MSN Local Edition, also unveiled today. You can preview the new at http://preview.msn.com. Microsoft said it will become widely available to U.S. customers early next year.
Evolution of MSN Home Page (1996-today)
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I find the new MSN homepage design very lovely. I love the white background and the colours on it. Lovely
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I find the new MSN homepage design very lovely. I love the white background and the colours on it. Lovely
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Don’t like it! Preferred the old one!
the new one is epic fail!!
I’m glad that you show the evolution cause it really shows how regressive the new change really is!
I get the feeling that MSN has the same attitude as our politicians do these days, and that is that they know better and other opinions do not matter.
I really liked the old MSN hotmail but know that had to change? It was so easy to work with like to put a picture or file in the e-mail I just dragged or copy/paste in the e-mail. Now it has to go thru a server to get it attached in the e-mail and most the time it doesn’t come out right or get delivered in entirety? Maybe that change was done to make it more secure or whatever reason. If it was security I do not see how adding another location and several more steps could make it more secure that is not true.
Maybe it was one more way to track and monitor people more. I have heard a theory that Bill Gates has become a government person just short and yet far above a politician in the common sense. That may explain the push for things like silverlight which is not far complete peer to peer.
Looks like privacy is going away. for those that say they have nothing to hide wait till they are trying to do something and there is a person who can access their data. Good luck with your future court battles against the politicians or government cause they will know your every move right or wrong, even if they are the ones that are wrong that kind of advantage makes a lot of difference.
Anyhow I would like to say that I loved the old page the layout was fantastic for seeing all news at a glance then just a matter of a click to go where I wanted. It really stinks now and I only go there to check my mail which I may change to the new site I find to call home. I no longer go to the MSN site as home. Maybe it is time for someone new to stepup and offer what you have left behind and bring back the “old style” MSN webpage.
Thanks for the new improved page maybe it will catch on for some people. Not for me though. I guess it will be time for many to say good bye to MSN, Shame I have been going there since its conception.