Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage, but not everyone will be getting it at once.
The new ‘updated’ page, redesigned by the software giant, will be availed by only a few users for now though approximately 100 million more customers will be getting it in the next few weeks.
The new version, regarded by Microsoft as its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade, comes with a:
- New MSN butterfly logo (complementing the Bing logo)
- Larger Bing search box and tighter integration with the search engine
- Local information from a new feature dubbed ‘MSN Local Edition’
Another incentive is the addition of three social network streams – the Windows Live “What’s New” feed (of course), Facebook and Twitter.
Microsoft said it was all previewed in November and the redesign includes more than 30 updates that are based on 70,000 pieces of customer feedback.
These new features include TrendWatch, which highlights of the day’s top trends and movers on Twitter, Hyper-local Tweets, which uses Bing to highlight tweets from your location (available on the new Local Edition), and My Cities, which allows you to save up to three cities to keep up with your friends or family across the entire country in your MSN Local Edition.
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