Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

Windows Live Product Search & Upload gets update

LiveSide - News blog — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:26:36 GMT

Whilst unlikely to attract quite the same attention and controversy as the Windows Live Shopping switch

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

quikboy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:47:10 GMT

Now I know many people are on the topic of how Microsoft should have sorted it, but let's think about right now for a moment. Why get rid of Live Shopping? MSN shopping is very ugly and yuck. At least Live Shopping had a good UI going, and it looked like a nice site (although I personally don't shop), but getting or rid of the nicer one? I at least hope they'll keep the same elements of Live Shopping, when they place the MSN name on it.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

sxmangel — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:34:26 GMT

I'm happy with this one...Shopping doesn't quite fit into the Live package in my mind.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

Chris — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:22:03 GMT

Just added in a bit of info from Rob Wolf, who is on the shopping team.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

tophtucker — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:26:12 GMT

"Microsoft need to get there act together!"

I think that's exactly what they're doing. ;)

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

mrx9898 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:30:41 GMT

Well I tihnk this sucks, another Windows Live service reverted back to MSN. Pretty soon you'll probably have to rename the site: MSN Side instead of LiveSide. Microsoft need to get there act together!

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

paulstorm — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:06:53 GMT

all of this makes complete sense to me. MSN Shopping isn't a search/services problem. I think of MSN Shopping as more of a digital mall. Product Search is when I want quick/dirty access to products and run comparisons or filter them easily.

I was hoping this would be corrected and it has. :)

Live -- all your *information* and the people/circles you care about -- self customized.

MSN -- all the news/content thats fit to print -- preprogrammed for you to digest.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

Jacki Boi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:16:34 GMT

Please say there will be a new UI for MSN shopping then, cos it pretty much sucks at the moment.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

tophtucker — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:59:26 GMT

They haven't started redirecting yet, from what I see...

I think it's a good move. But the current Windows Live Shopping is much more advanced than MSN Shopping, so they should basically just replace MSN Shopping with Windows Live Shopping but rebrand it to MSN Shopping... if you see what I mean. :)

While they're at it, how about giving The New MSN Shopping the same style as MSN Entertainment and MSN.com have adopted?

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

quikboy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:13:21 GMT

Thanks for the info. Chris. I appreciate it. It's about time they got that straightened out.

re: Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain

Zaarin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:08:47 GMT

Glad that they know what they're doing over at MS, because I sure as hell don't.