 Microsoft Unveils New Start.com |
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 Sep 1 2005, 09:34 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 120 Joined: 28-August 05 Member No.: 11,224  |
MSN on Thursday took the wraps off a new version of its Start.com customizable portal. The new version includes support to indicate what feeds have been read or unread, automatic updates, as well as capabilities to show more or fewer headlines based on a user's preference.
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Sep 1 2005, 10:07 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 16-August 05 Member No.: 10,762 |
It sure takes a while to load, almost as long as an Invision Power Board. Is this going to be the automatic home page to new installs of Internet Explorer and users who do not know how to change the home page as opposed to msn.com or whatever it is now?
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Sep 2 2005, 12:10 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 282 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Wanatos Member No.: 11,382 |
Hi, i had never seen such portal, its great... When did it first came to light or what did the other version looked like? Wow, you can do a lot of things, i dont know if you could in the older versions of the portal but now you can place your sections wherever you like (in the graphic interface), just by dragging off the title of the section and releasing it where it fits...
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Sep 2 2005, 12:52 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 27-June 05 From: Minnesota Member No.: 8,734 |
Yea, like what CopperZepher said... it loads like a forum. It takes awhile to load it, they need to get some better servers running on it.
This is a lot like what google has. I don't know if you have to have a gmail account to get this feature, but you can do basically everything that start.com does on google. It's is quite nice to have but i still like having my homepage set as www.blizzard.com so I can know about anything that goes on with blizzard. xJedix |
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Sep 2 2005, 03:59 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 621 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 11,160 |
yea it does take a bit of time but if they get a faster server on it it should run great and with all there mobney it should have been like that in the first place
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Sep 2 2005, 09:54 AM
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apt-get moo  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,236 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Devon, England Member No.: 7,593  myCENT:20.88 |
OK, I use Opera so all I saw of their homepage was a search bar, even when identifying myself as IE. Using FireFox I could see the whole thing, and it reminds me of the Google homepage. Again Microsoft steals someone elses ideas, but I still prefer the Google homepage, as I can actually load it and view it.
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Sep 2 2005, 10:21 AM
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$p4m 0n j00 $h4m3 m3 0nc3 $p4m 0n m3 $h4m3 m3 7\/\/1c3 Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 6,798 Joined: 21-September 04 From: 9r33|\| 399$ 4|\|D 5P4/\/\ Member No.: 1,218  myCENT:READY[102.80] |
meh its ok not need but ok.
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Sep 3 2005, 06:16 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 3-September 05 Member No.: 11,447 |
looks like google homepage and the idea could actually came from there, you can actually hide all those options and guess what you will get, the same serach bar such as google's |
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Sep 19 2005, 01:19 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 24-July 05 Member No.: 9,818 |
Seems kinda pointless to me....nothing exciteing, nothing you cant get from making msn or yahoo or homepage
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Sep 19 2005, 06:09 PM
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