Microsoft is finally thinking about their main portal page. The long old look is now being redesigned for a cleaner organized and friendlier look.
The newly dressed home page has direct access to Twitter, Facebook, Window Live where you can sign in directly to read or update your new feeds and status of Facebook and real time tweets of your twitter accounts. This helps an easy short hand access to all three accounts from one single MSN.com home page.
The revamped home page has a bigger Bing bar for you to search in your queries. Microsoft has changed its default blue colored background to a litter and soothing white color which enables clear visualization of various colored links for News, Entertainment, Sports, Money, Lifestyle and More.
Another eye-catching moderation done to page is the slideshow of the top five news stories covering big photo and headline.
The portal covers embed links to many other news and information under various headings and categories.
Similar to earlier page users can directly check in their hotmail in-box for the entrance page.
The bigger fonts with lesser ingredients on the home page give it a confusion free look with easy access to other sub links though pop-down menus under main headings.
Renovated home page contains many things including news, movies, weather, maps, social networking, stocks etc. but in a more organized and filtered way.
Yahoo recently gave a makeover to its home page and was able to catch more users to its web domain with a 20 percent hiked time people use to spend on homepage, up until now.
Newly fashioned look embed in it bit of every taste from business to social hub, from news to shopping it’s Microsoft try to keep you enticed through their home page and they aim to bring in more traffic to its search engine Bing. Bing was launched in June and is still ranked third in search traffic after Google and Yahoo.
Microsoft late Tuesday began rolling out the new MSN home page (click for preview), which it says will become widely available in the U.S. early in 2010.