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Windows Live provides you with a handy, personal login page featuring all the news you choose, as well as instant messaging, e-mail, and other tools.

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Reviewed on: 03/20/2006

Similar to My Yahoo and the personalized Google News home page, Windows Live lets you create a personal, dynamic login screen that houses Web search with your favorite news content and Gadgets. Available at Live.com, this highly customizable service lets you select and access up-to-the-minute news as well as up to 500 RSS feeds and Gadgets online. You'll need to sign in with a Windows Live (formerly Passport) ID.

You can add all kinds of content to your Live.com pages from the Windows Live Gallery, such as games--in addition to news from all over the Web.

We like that Live.com organizes those features into modules that you can drag around the page. You can organize content within as many as 30 pages containing 50 items each, which is helpful for separating work from play. However, you can't control the sizes of every module, which can leave you with a bit too much white space. View our slide show of the Windows Live beta to see the features as they looked before the service was finalized.

Underlying Live.com is the new Windows Live Search, which has replaced MSN Search and added image lookups and interface goodies, such as a nifty slider bar and scrolling, which aim to reduce the amount of clicking through pages of search results. Microsoft continues to enhance the integration among its various Windows Live services.

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Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 14 reviews
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4.5 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

"LOVE IT!!!"

by chema97 on October 10, 2006

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3.0 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

"It's ok.. They are goin with the rightidea"

by nickswim on March 21, 2006

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"Yhere are better ones!!!!"

by jaamja on March 22, 2006

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