Wednesday, November 4, 2009

MSN.com: clutter and Bing, Facebook and Twitter

Microsoft dusts off the global version of the MSN portal and provides a better integration of search engine Bing, the appearance of articles on Facebook, Twitter.

For Microsoft, the MSN.com portal will benefit from the biggest change ever took place for ten years. This new release concerned the global version of the portal, then understand this Homepage extensively reworked to be put in place the day the United States. However, nothing prevents a user non-American to attend. For now, the new portal can be tested via a preview.


For MSN.com, changing the order of its many aesthetic, beginning with the abandonment of the blue and the adoption of a white background. More clarity is also measured with a better layout of proposed topics. Certainly, this new version is more refined with a bar menu prepared by top to access the news, Leisure, Sports and others. The entry displayed directly on the portal are available in the form of blocks, the main block displaying a slideshow of the five news yet.

MSN.com also aims to increase the market share of search engine Bing that the United States is final. According to Microsoft, and Bing was more deeply integrated with MSN.com search areas particularly highlighted as the search for local information based on IP address, the motor aspect of decision Bing for procurement, travel.

As it is impossible to ignore the mode of social networks, MSN.com is not only the pride of Windows Live, but in a column to the right of the page, the user can also access its updates statutes on Facebook, Twitter. With the Facebook tab, the user can for example refer directly to the MSN page list of recent updates to his friends and update its status.

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