Has anyone noticed the new Live.com?


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WTF? Do I have some secret beta version or something?

Rudy, can you switch to US and tell me how it looks? Thanks

I swear that the pics aren't fake. I can also make a video and show proof.

Hate to break your fun, but no. I have the same thing :D

Firefox 3 here.

I'm pretty sure if I reset the browser cookies and temp internet files, the live.com layout will be the same old one.

It might be a sort of glitch that I caught lol

The Live.com team does all sorts of tests quite frequently. Sometimes when you go to Live.com you get put in a random test group to see how users react to changes. It's completely random (to provide good statistical analysis), so you may have gotten into a lucky test! It's likely not a glitch, but just complete chance that when you went there Live.com put you in that testing group to see how you react to the UI changes and such.

@Recon415 -

The screenshot you posted is the usual Live Search for the US market. It doesn't have the same, Kumo-like UI which EddiePwnsYou has.

osnap.

Apparently I missed the stuff off to the side. In all honesty I've never bothered with Live search. Sorry lol false alarm.

Out of chance, I get the features too in IE8... Maybe it was IE beta only?

Not exactly, IE8 is required but not every IE8 user is seeing the beta. None of my non-beta accounts are receiving the cookie for this version.

Sorry for double post but this is another update!!!

Seems that this thing is cookie based.

See that I posted FF3 vs. IE8 in some post on the 3rd page of the topic? The design on FF3 was the old Live.com.

This morning I decided to import the cookies into firefox from IE8. Ta-da!

I have the new design in firefox too!

ff3%20new%20design.jpg

Sorry for double post but this is another update!!!

Seems that this thing is cookie based.

See that I posted FF3 vs. IE8 in some post on the 3rd page of the topic? The design on FF3 was the old Live.com.

This morning I decided to import the cookies into firefox from IE8. Ta-da!

I have the new design in firefox too!

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Nice thinking.

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