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...MSN Money www.moneycentral.msn.com Download the free Deluxe Portfolio Manager, input ticker symbols and other data, and--presto!--you have a snapshot of your holdings. Monitor stocks, mutual funds, bonds and other investments. The site earns extra points for working seamlessly with Microsoft's Excel program...
...MSN has added parental controls, like those AOL has offered for years, but MSN's are better. In addition to choosing from three preset levels for access to Web browsing, e-mail and instant messaging, parents can customize which sites their kids can and cannot visit. When children try to go to a restricted site, they have the option of e-mailing their parents for permission. And at the end of the week, parents get an activity log detailing exactly which sites their kids visited and how much time they spent there. AOL promises a similar feature--AOL Guardian...
When it comes to e-mail, MSN's biggest flaws used to be speed and spam. In the new version, e-mail downloads much more quickly from the company's Hotmail server, although there is still a slight lag. When I tested MSN 8, I was pleasantly surprised that less than a third of the spam I received landed in my In box; the rest was automatically funneled to the junk mailbox. MSN 8 also provides automated virus checking and full-text search for messages in your In box. AOL 8's mail, on the other hand, is mostly playing...
With 35 million subscribers worldwide (vs. 9 million for MSN), AOL will continue to have the edge, if only from subscriber inertia. But that may not last long. Microsoft's $21.95-a-month charge is $1.95 less than AOL's, and its broadband access ranges from $40 to $50 a month, vs. $55 for AOL. MSN subscribers also get free versions of Microsoft's encyclopedia and bill-paying and photo-editing software...
...were a new online subscriber, I would choose MSN over AOL. Its interface is just as easy for newbies to learn and use, and you can always keep in touch with AOL buddies through the free AOL Instant Messenger program. But for those who enjoy AOL members-only chat rooms and message boards, the new features are reason enough to stick around. At least until MSN 9 comes...