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December 07, 2005

Distinguishing Start.com From Live.com

Distinguishing Start.com From Live.com

By Mary Jo Foley

When we first heard about Microsoft's Live.com plans a few weeks back, most of us Microsoft watchers equated Microsoft's newly minted Live.com with its Start.com Web aggregator, which is currently in beta test. No one corrected us for doing so. But according to Microsoft blogger Sanaz Ahari, the MSN team doesn't consider the two to be the same. Start.com is more of an incubation tool, while Live.com is the future home of all of the new properties Microsoft is planning to ship under the Windows Live banner, Ahari says. Definitely a subtle distinction, but a difference, nonetheless.

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