Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Ryan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:19:06 GMT

Also,

start.com redirects to my.live.com

and its not live for me.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

WyzyrdMyrrlyn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:55:50 GMT

it's live

it still doesn't work with ie8 (the orb menu shows up three times), but it's live

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

wargarurumon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:01:37 GMT

i hope they have an update to the live.com homepage , and that they would release it soon

maybe this is a sign that it is coming

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Chris — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:01:31 GMT

http://my.live.com now works, along with the new search homepage.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Alex — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:57:06 GMT

If you take a look at my.live.com/urlChange.aspx, and then point to the jewel, you'll see that they still link to Shopping etc.

Let's hope it's just the beginning of some updates, and not the beginning of the end.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

ranpha — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:12:57 GMT

my.live.com did not redirect to live.com, just like it was shown below, see the URL at the address bar.

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But then again, live.com still show my personalized page.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Alber1690 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:06 GMT

We are currently being re-directed because the page doesn't launch until mid-April. Once then, I think my.live.com will be the personalized live.com, while live.com will serve as the Live Search home, instead of search.live.com. Microsoft needed to do this to provide an equally (hopefully) simple and sleek alternative to Google.com (which, as we all know, is a very simple search engine with two buttons)...WHOA!!! I just performed a search and there have been some quite big UI changes [at search.msn.com]! Wait...what the heck. Now there are two Live Search sites? One at search.msn.com (the one with the new UI, which gets re-directed after typying in search.live.com), but then there's also the Live.com search-only site (www.live.com). But...it seems like the official Live Search (search engine only site; Google.com alternative) is going to be the one parked over at search.msn.com (which the updated header with the links at top has a link to "Live Search" with the search.live.com link, but then re-directs to search.msn.com). So...maybe they're going to have it moved to search.live.com, but it's currently parked at the msn.com domain, since the person who updated the link titled "Live Search" decided to put search.live.com instead of search.msn.com).

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

SteveBallmer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:53:00 GMT

We have found that including My in the names of things gives you people a sense of ownership and pride!

(You guys are actually pretty easy to appease, thanks)

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Kip Kniskern — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:15:06 GMT

Seems like this would also signal a clearing of the decks for www.live.com. Still no telling what "Rome" will bring, but moving the personalized page off live.com might (or might not) signal something there.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Alex — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:41:01 GMT

my.live.com redirects me to www.live.com too (En-US, in USA now), but I think this e-mail was sent out in preparation. If they're going to change stuff in a few weeks, most people are already prepared and using the my.live.com-version.

It's better news than expected, I'd expect them to drop the personalized experience alltogether, because of the lack of updates.

But we did get some news, so maybe they're still planning on updating it :)

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Khristopher — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:48:58 GMT

my.live.com as the personalized page still just goes to live.com for me using English Canada.

Why they do this, I have no idea. Google offers their personlized page without forcing you not to just because of your location.

re: Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

Slimy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:37:08 GMT

Got the e-mail as well but didn't post about it on Ars for one simple reason:

my.live.com redirects to www.live.com so it really doesn't mean much. I was hoping it means live.com would be changing, but it's really just another subdomain offering.