Windows Live Personalized Experience (also known as My.Live.com, previously Live.com) is a customizable portal launched by Microsoft in early November 2005. It was one of the first Windows Live services to launch.
Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance. Building off Microsoft's start.com experimental page, Live.com can be customized with Gadgets, mini-applications that can serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, ...
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Windows Live Personalized Experience (also known as My.Live.com, previously Live.com) is a customizable portal launched by Microsoft in early November 2005. It was one of the first Windows Live services to launch.
Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance. Building off Microsoft's start.com experimental page, Live.com can be customized with Gadgets, mini-applications that can serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, weather reports, slide shows, search, games, etc.). Some gadgets integrate with other Windows Live services, including Hotmail, Live Search, and Favorites.
Users can create multiple site tabs and customize each with different feeds, gadgets, layouts, and color schemes, thus making it a competitor to iGoogle and Pageflakes among others.
On December 14, 2004, Start.com, the predecessor to Live.com, began internal testing. On February 5, 2005, the first version,
http://www.start.com/1, went live. On March 10,
http://www.start.com/2 went live, and...
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