MSN.com public beta has been released. You can view the beta of MSN.com here. The beta doesn't have that much images like the normal MSN.com since It's still BETA and is in Beta Stages!


Some things the MSN.com beta page has:

MSN Search on the top and bottom! If user is signed in, They will be able to sign out with one click from the MSN.com Beta Page! Send your feedback to the MSN.com team to improve the beta! MSN.com Public Beta ... more

Microsoft MSN Butterfly beta testers will shortly start testing the next revision of the MSN Explorer software. Rumoured as MSN Explorer 9.20 there will be minor changes and the addition of features like PhotoMail. PhotoMail allows you to embed images into your email and annotate them, apply effects to them etc just like you would in Microsoft Word.MSN Beta testers will be receiving the MSN Explorer Beta CD shortly and it's expected that the beta will run until the end of Q1 2005.



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Celebrated Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia recently returned from a global business trip that took him to India, New Zealand, Australia and England, and he is now prepping for the launch of five new startups over the next three months.
"Every single one of them solves a problem I have, and I'm guessing they'll solve problems for many others," Bhatia told eWEEK.com. It's how he came up with browser-based e-mail and he's confident his new ideas could strike a similar chord with users.
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The MSN Toolbar Suite combines several great programs that speed up your search tasks and help you surf the Web. There's now an MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Office Outlook, the MSN Deskbar in the Windows taskbar, and an MSN Toolbar that works in both Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. With Toolbars in these three places, you can start your search and find your pages more quickly than ever before. Desktop Search lets you find anything on your computer, fast
MSN Deskbar includes the Desktop Search feature, which lets you search your computer as easily as you search the Web. With MSN Desktop Search, you don't have to keep everything perfectly organized on your computer. Instead, De ... more

As Wave 10 has just passed at MSN, the MSN team are celebrating and cracking on with MSN Wave 11. MSN Wave 11 is due to be fully complete in early 2006. The key parts of MSN Wave 11 are:
From NeoWin:

Me (My Identity)
My Relationships (My Social Network)
Catch up Publish & Archive Communicate E-mail, IM, & SMS Voice & Video Share Fun (Play Together) MSN Spaces MSN are planning to create "Group Spaces", although like the recently launched Blogging service these will allow you to create a place to share ideas, to do lists, notes, calendars, etc. wit ... more

MSN Spaces, Microsoft's blogging service, has opened itself to the public for beta testing. The service, previously only available in Japanese, is now available in English. Like the recently launched search beta, it does appear a little shakey in terms of .
Microsoft's goal with the project is to make getting (and running) a blog as simple as any other task. After a simple signup process (you pick a name and url) you're ready to tell the world your views. Spaces have most of the common features seen on blogs (RSS, track back, etc) and a few more. Microsoft offers a variety of themes, ranging from the ... more

NeoWin have just run a story on the MSN Desktop Search engine which is due in December. Back in July, Microsoft purchased a company called Lookout. The company made a popular tool that allowed users of Outlook 2000 or above to search through their email at greater speed and accuracy to the standard Outlook search tool. Since Microsoft acquired Lookout, the MSN team have been steadily working on Desktop Search and web search technologies. Google announced their own Desktop Search technology recently. The tool is fast but is limited in capabilities.
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On behalf of the MSN Search team I'm very pleased to announce that we've begun the worldwide rollout of our new algorithmic search service Beta release. I invite you to check it out at http://beta.search.msn.com and send us feedback via the "help us improve" links. You can identify the Beta version by the text "Search (beta)" next to the MSN butterfly logo.



This is an update of the service we started building in early 2003. We released it as a "Technology Preview" in July this year and more recently in early October at http://techpreview.search.msn.com to sol ... more

Hot on the heels of its big storage boost, MSN is rolling out so-called "life management" features like calendaring, task lists, notes, and reminders to users of its free e-mail service.The new features, which were previously only available to paying customers, take a page from Microsoft's desktop mail application, Outlook. They're also very similar to what's offered for free by MSN competitor Yahoo!



The upgrade, originally announced with the increased storage plans back in June, will be rolled out to more than 180 million free Hotmail users around the world. It launches on Tuesday and will continue over the next couple of days.
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MSN Explorer is the all-in-one software from Microsoft that makes it easy to get more from the Web.
It works with your existing Internet connection, allowing you to browse the web, e-mail and instant message friends, chat, listen to music and much more. Easily sign-in and access to your favorite MSN features and an integrated media player offers a great new way to find and play music and video.



It supports up to 9 users, so everyone in your family has their own e-mail, buddies, favorite sites, etc. Innovative new automatic update mechanism delivers updates (service improvements and new features) to you. ... more