March 12, 2010 by Matt Thomas
2010 has been a year of major competition between the internets ‘big 3’ of Microsoft, Yahoo and Google as each of them form partnerships and make new deals in the hope of overhauling the other two. So it comes as no surprise that Microsoft has revealed their new MSN homepage to its 100 million users in the United States.
The company has been previewing the major redesign of its MSN homepage since last year as they quietly went about their business collecting user input in an attempt to perfect the site in time for its 2010 release. This comes hot on the heels of their announcement that they are to integrate MySpace into their Outlook program
“Since the preview of our new home page began in November, we’ve been very busy gathering over 70,000 pieces of customer feedback and introducing over 30 updates in our quest to deliver the best home page to stay in the know,” said an MSN blog post this week.
It would seem that Bing has been the centre of attention for Microsoft as of late as they attempt to take on the Google search engine but it is clear that Microsoft have far from forgotten about MSN which is home to two of its most popular programs in Hotmail and the Messenger service.
The timing for this redesign could not have been better as their main competitors Google and Yahoo have been devoting a lot of their time and money into making vast improvements to their respective services in the hope of attracting users from the other sites.
Just recently Google has added the Buzz social networking application to its Google Mail page whilst Yahoo have added a service that allows social feeds from Facebook and other social networking sites.
By the looks of things it is set to be a year of change and innovation from all three companies.
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