How the MSN Home Page has changed!
Microsoft today unveiled a preview of its most significant home page redesign in over a decade. The new MSN home page is designed to be the best home page on the Web, with powerful Bing search, the top news and hottest entertainment, and some of the most popular social networks — all in a fresh new look.
The new home page will deliver comprehensive local information from the new MSN local information offering, MSN Local Edition, also unveiled today. Beginning today, anyone can preview the new home page at http://preview.msn.com. The new home page will begin rolling out today and become widely available to U.S. customers early next year.
Microsoft has started from scratch to cut the clutter on our homepage and reduced the amount of links by 50%. There’s also a simplified navigation across news, entertainment, sports, money, and lifestyle. Local information from your neighborhood is important to you and so is high quality, in-line video. Also included is a feature to display the latest information not only from your favorite sources, friends, Facebook, Twitter, & Windows Live services.
Also check out this tour of vintage MSN homepages. It shows how the MSN homepage has changed since launching in 1995.
Check out above what the MSN homepage looked like when it first launched on November 20, 1995, about the same time as Windows 95 and Internet Explorer.
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Don’t like the new look at all
I don’t like it. The old one was much better!
Give us our old MSN back.Will change homepage now…
I hate it! Hate it!
I cannot get my local UK weather forecast now.
Thanks for cutting out we customers in the UK!
I hate it.
Do not like the new homepage at all. The old one was better. Will not use msn for my homepage.
Ummm It was so bad I had to change google to my new home page.
Hate the new webpage. Strongly dislike the change happening without being made better aware. Changing to another homepage right now.
I sure don’t like it. It looks plain, and uninviting. I will change to a new home page (Yahoo or something).
I absolutely hate the new design! If they don’t go back I will use a different home page.
I have to agree with everyone. I don’t like the new design and I’ll switch to something else until they change it back.
I hate I am going to to google as my home page
Bought new computer was forced to take VISTA. I loved XP now I can do nothing. I want my old homepage back. I will try to learn the New Word and EXCell, but why couldn’t you leave us alone.
I am in my 60’s and sick now so it’s harder to make the change, May I please have my old HomePage with options to access Hotmail, Messenger ,etc. I buy the current Norton/Symantec Internet program for the year. Please help me. Thank you for taking the time to read this, or I have lost yet another facet of my life that I cannot restore myeelf.
I don’t like the new page. Too much white space…can we please have a choice to revert to the old one???
I do not like the new home page like the rest of the people.I will have to use a new page.Again you do not offer a choice or ask ahead of time for a pole as to what people want.Like the rest of the world we do not have any choice as to what we would like anymore.This is it like it or not.Thank You John.
MSN says “we listened”. To who? Not me! I’m a big fan of “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”, and I don’t think I’m alone. And why, every time I turn around, does it seem that MSN is trying to shove Bing down my throat? MSN- I USE GOOGLE, get over this BING thing. I don’t want to use it. I use what I’m comfortable with. Just one more thing to up the anxiety level. Sheesh!
Old MSN homepage link below. Make sure to change it to your homepage settings. Tools>Internet Options> “use current” All site are monitored for traffic so Microsoft just might get the message that people don’t care for their version of “New Coke”. Link below.
http://msnmember.msn.com/
Change for its own sake again? New Coke bombed for a reason.
I hate the new MSN home page so much! who on earth were they listening to anyways, fish in the sea? a majority of people hate it. why don’t they either switch it back, or give people the option of having the “older version?” it’s not very fair to people at all. this is just forcing me to have another website be my home page. SWITCH IT BACK MSN!
Hate the new site. Give me the old one back.
You guys have done it again, messed up a working facility to which I became familiar. Now my stock listng is gone and I am innundated by all the garbage of BING and other stuff. As if we needed an intrusive monkey see monkee do when there is GOOGLE. The Redmond crew is dodo as far as I am concerned. Go FIREFOX from now on. MSN is in the dump i this house.
The customers have spoken, change it back or make slight improvements over the old one. I can’t access hotmail quickly with the new page, this new format is very amatuer.
No thanks for the change. I will use another home page. Stupid MSN. People used MSN because they liked the layout. Now you *><*ed it up an there will be a stampede out. People want real news,and a familiar page not Hollywood. I am also disturbed by Bing drop down interruptions wasting my time!!!
Hate the new site. Give me the old one back.
I will change my home page. If you want me to stay then give me what I want are I am gone!
I was edited. My appropriate word, a 4 letter word beginning with “F” to describe your “NEW” site configuration was edited out on my comment. That is a violation of the First Amendment according to my Constitution oriented lawyer who wants me to file a suit against MSN. When something works well and your clients feel comfortable with it you must be sheer idiots to fool around with it and still keep your jobs. That is superior stupidity not worthy of Remond. Like Vice precident Cheney said to a certain senator , and I would assume is an allowable expression according to the First Amendment, ” Go F… yourself” . It is appropriate for the person(s) that came up with this stupid idea and their equals that aggreed to it and perfomed a sickly executed introduction to it. How stupid can you be and still keep your job. Blaah!
i am reposting this. thanks mick. hate the new msn page, too. change it back bill gates.
By Mick on March 8th, 2010 at 5:58 AM
Old MSN homepage link below. Make sure to change it to your homepage settings. Tools>Internet Options> “use current” All site are monitored for traffic so Microsoft just might get the message that people don’t care for their version of “New Coke”. Link below.
http://msnmember.msn.com/
http://msnmember.msn.com/
This is not my recently departed msn.com. Is it a trap placed by the sam e ahs that screwed it up in the first place?
Going to the Google Home Page tonight. As said before, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. I really dislike the new format.
After using MSN for many years… Thank You for this lousy update that I hate so much. You forced me to find iGoogle. iGoogle is a nice home page. Best part is I can still use hotmail. Thank You Microsoft for caring about your customers needs and good luck.
The new msn page stinks. I cant get to the videos easily or scan the article in away that I had become acustomed too. All white, what were you thinking! Change it up or I change my home page to something else. I have used msn for my home page for over 8 years.
I HATE the new homepage.
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