Summary:

Effective March 15, 2010 the Windows Live Platform will discontinue use of and access to My.Live.com

Users of My.Live.com will be redirected to My MSN (http://my.msn.com)

Settings, Feeds, Gadgets/Modules will ***not*** be migrated to My MSN

Reference:

To see the notification use your browser to navigate to http://my.live.com

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Here’s the same notice in text form

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Thank you for using My.live.com. On March 15, 2010, My.live.com will be discontinued and all users redirected to My MSN. Please note that your settings, feeds and gadgets will not be migrated to MyMSN. To make MyMSN your homepage today, click here.

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Comments:

The most noticeable differences will be:

1. Advertisements – MyMSN has ‘ads’,  unlike My.Live.com which does/did not
   - An MSN Premium primary member account or member sub-account(created by the primary) is capable of an ad free MyMSN page 

2. Different MyMSN modules(text and graphic) are available for customizing the page
   - Modules on My.Live.com were referred to as 'Gadgets'

3. RSS Feeds Modules always show the first feed line item entry with contents expanded(thanks to LarryB. for pointing this out)

4. One can have up to five pages on My MSN (My.Live.com permitted many more - as a test I added 15)

5. Some common and different navigational links at the top of the page (see below graphics)

     -  i.e. Links to Hotmail and MSN remain;  though Spaces, Home(home.live.com) are removed

 

    • My Live Links:

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  • MY MSN Links:

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Revisions:

January 26, 2010: Original Publish Date

January 28, 2010: Updated Comments section(Module vs Gadgets, Feeds, and Maximum pages allowed)

January 29, 2010: Excluded Hotmail Plus account and replaced with Msn Premium primary or secondary account(s) as a requirement for an ad-free page