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Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release)

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 8:15 pm PT

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct in thinking the recipe Microsoft has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple, of course, with a big dollop of Twitter and Facebook tossed in, and finished off with a generous sprinkling of Microsoft’s new Bing search service. For those who care: The MSN butterfly logo remains, although it appears to have lost a lot of weight.

MSN's Bob Visse Talks About Homepage Redesign (Plus Microsoft's Videos With Designer and Execs)

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 8:14 pm PT

Here is a video interview BoomTown did with Bob Visse, GM of MSN Product Management today at Microsoft’s offices in San Francisco. The new MSN homepage debuts tonight with a redesign cutting clutter, adding the ability to access both Facebook and Twitter, a local focus and with Microsoft’s new Bing search service everywhere. Also, some Microsoft interviews with MSN staff about the changes.