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ReadWriteWeb: The New MSN: Will More White Space and Local News Make You Visit It?
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0: Microsoft's MSN gets a makeover -- and how
| MSN Homepages through Time http://bit.ly/22xlhf 11/5/2009 |
| Check out MSN Homepages throughout Time http://bit.ly/18htUX 11/5/2009 |
| MSN Portal has a new design http://www.msn.com/preview.aspx. A lot more elegant! See the review http://bit.ly/18htUX 11/5/2009 |
The New MSN: Will More White Space and Local News Make You Visit It?
ReadWriteWeb —
... In the US, MSN is one of the top 5 most visited sites on the net with about 100 million visitors per month. According to Microsoft, the MSN homepage is the #1 homepage in 26 markets. This is the first major redesign of MSN since Microsoft introduced the current look in 2004. ...
Microsoft's MSN gets a makeover -- and how
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 —
... Portals such as MSN change over the years, but the one thing the big ones consistently try to do is to draw the most number of eyeballs possible. In MSN's case, the company says, that amounted to 600 million unique visitors worldwide in August. ...
Remodeling brings MSN portal up to code
GMSV —
... much easier on the eyes than the crowded and busy previous layout (and with only half the links); simplified topic navigation; thorough Bing integration; better display of local information; and, in an effort to keep users from straying off to their social sites, the ability to pull in status updates from Facebook and Twitter. For perspective, take a look at MSN homepage designs over the years , including the inaugural version from 1995 featuring the image of a bus for cruising the new Information Superhighway. ...
MSN Home Page Gets a Major Face Lift
Search Engine Roundtable —
... - that is significant. The MSN Blog takes us back through the years, starting from 1995 through today - looking at the various MSN designs. Here is a video from the design team on the changes: ...
MSN portal – A guided video tour
D' Technology Weblog —
... at Microsoft's new digs at Bravern complex in downtown Bellevue. For a stroll down memory lane, see this MSN post showing evolution of portal since its debut in 1995: ...

