I saw an ad on TV of two people kissing and realised it was an ad for Xtra joining Yahoo. The new Yahoo Xtra website launched at the start of this month. So no more XtraMSN - it's now Yahoo!Xtra. I'm not sure of the reason why Xtra (Telecom) left their long standing relationship with MSN (Microsoft) to join up with Yahoo!7 (a joint venture between Yahoo and Australia's TV Channel 7). I've also noticed that Hotmail is no longer XtraMSN Hotmail but it is now msn.nz Hotmail.
I wonder if MSN will partner with a company in New Zealand now. In Australia there is NineMSN (a partnership with TV Channel 9), and in the States MSNBC (a cable TV channel).
Here are some articles on the new partnership:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo!7_creates_joint_venture_with_Xtra
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/2288
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/929734
Trying out some URLs to see what website they take you to now:
www.yahooxtra.co.nz - The Yahoo!Xtra website
nz.yahoo.com - The Yahoo!Xtra website
www.yahoo.co.nz - The Yahoo!Xtra website
www.xtra.co.nz - The Yahoo!Xtra website
www.xtramsn.co.nz - Gives you a choice to go to msn.nz or yahooxtra
So what will now be the default homepage and ISP for new Windows computers in NZ??
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