We read before that this would happen starting March already, but the following announcement appeared on windowslivewire : It’s almost moving time! We’ve been busy getting Windows Live Calendar ready for when we move all MSN Calendar customers over to...

All things come to an end, same goes for the QnA beta. The team just announced the end of the beta and the closing of the QnA site : We are ending the QnA beta test and are closing the QnA site on May 21, 2009. First and foremost, we want to thank you...

MSN is rolling out a new version of City Guides ( http://cityguides.msn.com/ ), “one step in MSN’s long term plan for Local”, for 30 US cities to start (Edit: 30 cities will receive customized pages; all US cities will get a new look...

Today is Earth Day , a day designated nearly 40 years ago to inspire awareness of and appreciation for our environment. But it isn’t easy to be green, according to this study from MSN . Nearly 70 percent of people said that they would never limit toilet...

MSN.com has just launched a new home page option, this one focused on Entertainment, and is kicking off a new phase of topic-focused homepage testing. From the MSN Home page , you should see an option on the left hand side, “Want more entertainment...

In its first ad campaign to simultaneously combine Internet, mobile, and video game ads, Microsoft beat out Google’s YouTube and Yahoo! for an ad deal with Discovery Communications, Inc. to promote the upcoming 5th season of “The Deadliest Catch”, according...

Afraid to miss out on a Live Search Cashback offer? You won’t if you use the MSN Toolbar , which now contains a Cashback-offer-detecting mechanism. If there is Cashback available for the item you were searching for the icon on the toolbar will gleam....

We already mentioned in January that MSN Calendar users will be moved to the Windows Live Calendar service . This migration of existing MSN Calendar users to the Windows Live Calendar service will start in March. Windows Live Calendar does not support...

In October we reported that MSN Groups would be closed. The original plan was to close MSN Groups on February 21, but that has been extended to February 23. The team just posted a reminder that you’ll need to migrate your groups to the Multiply service, or save data from those groups locally before Monday, February 23. After that you will no longer be able to access your Group and any of the data in it.

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Over at MSN UK Entertainment, they are trialing the new MSN v13 UI, complete with Silverlight enhancements. The test site at http://entertainment.next.uk.msn.com/ follows on from the testing of a Silverlight homepage design, http://viewer.uk.msn.com/...

Looking through my files today, I came across a set of “MSN Wave 11” (v7) concept images that were released back in December 2004, when Windows Live wasn’t even around yet (according to Wikipedia , Windows Live was first announced on November 11, 2005...

Starting today every US resident who downloads Sun’s Java Runtime Environment with Internet Explorer will be offered MSN Toolbar . This Microsoft Silverlight powered toolbar delivers one click access to Live Search , news, entertainment, sports and more...

We’ve been hearing rumors of the closure of MSN Groups and its replacement by Windows Live Groups for years now, last having written about it almost exactly a year ago. Now, however, in an email from Technical Support posted in the MSN Discussion public newsgroup, we have confirmation, and a timeline. In the email, a newsgroup poster who wrote Technical Support to ask for clarification on MSN Groups after an email went out to MSN Groups users in Italy telling them of the coming closure, and got a telling response. In the email, Claudia reveals that MSN Groups is “to close on February 21, 2009”, and that Windows Live Groups will launch on November 17, 2008.

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In an attempt to provide an enhanced, fresh, new browsing experience, MSN UK created Viewer . Viewer utilizes Microsoft Silverlight technology and is a window into all parts of the portal, from Cars to Entertainment to News. As such it doesn’t replace...

Since we learned about the upcoming version of MSN.com featuring a tighter Windows Live integration and a fresh new look a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft has continued to evolve the page before releasing it broadly. Some users are now forwarded to a version...