The other day my supervisor asked me “when last have you visited msn” I said ages my home page is google. Meaning I got no reason to visit msn. I mean I haven’t even checked my hotmail account in ages only reason i still got one is because i use msn messenger. If google did a proper instant messenger client I’ld stop using it instantly.

So out of curiosity I point my browser (firefox of course) to www.live.com after seeing it i instantly opened www.google.com in another tab. After looking at it I had to laugh, however on further investigation I was wowed. Microsoft has taken googles simplistic plat form.. wrapped it in their pretty blue and added some pretty nifty features.

The Image search is my favourite. after running the search. you can hover over to get image details. there aren’t any text to cluttere up the page.. that is all presented on hover over. And they added some ajax niceness to the Mix. You can drag images from the search result into a side bar on the page called “my collection”. This just goes to show that Microsoft isn’t sleeping They’re actually trying to improve them self with what the people apparently want. How flattering this must be to google though.. After all imitation is the deepest form of flattery.