lizardx - 10:58 pm on Jan 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

Last I heard they said june-july, that's still what I'm guessing, if they put this thing out now it wouldn't do very well, there's way too many places it fails when pushed, complex searches, searches that require sorting through a huge number of similar pages, it's getting better though. June seems reasonable to me given the beta nature, after all, if they release this live and people don't like it, it's very difficult to get those annoyed users back, it's worth waiting for it to work quite consistently well before going live.

This isn't like longhorn where MS can fail on major feature after major feature, like new file systems etc, cut those features out, then say they are releasing longhorn.

MSN search will need to work at least as well as Yahoo before going live, it's very hard to win back hearts and minds on the web.