Its live!  We've now got the new page live with all our services hooked up.  Go take a look at the link below.  We are still working through a few minor issues before we start sending real traffic to this page, but all in all it looks pretty good.

MSN.com BETA

Here are a couple of the things you will see with this page:

• Collapse and expand modules for content you do or don't like
• Add modules for additional functionality (more coming soon)
• Change to one of 5 themes
• Personalize with your location
• Add stocks
• View your mail in the page (including deleting mail from the page)
• Select an edition of the slideshow that matches your interests

Currently, we've optimized this for the majority of our users which run IE on XP, and haven't completed work for alternate and downlevel browsers.  We're working on support for all major browsers, so stay tuned.

We've also dramatically reduced the number of ads on the page.  WHEW! (been working on that one for a while)

We're also using AJAX quite extensively, so you'll see the page load and data pop in after the page is usable.

We'd love to hear from you about what you think.  Ad a comment or give us a trackback.  Tell us what you like and what you don't.  We're interested in hearing your opinions.

Thanks,

Kerry D. Woolsey,

MSN Portals PM

PS.  This is the "butterscotch" theme