Leaving Yahoo Portal for MSN

Yahoo really declined in the last few years. The Website, once my favorite Portal to the Internet has turned into a confusing and useless piece of cyberspace.

Once rivaling Google as a worthy source for searching the Internet, Yahoo offered the best features and clear navigation. I often appreciated Yahoo Finance for the customization of their Stock Charts. First and foremost, I like to quickly see when Dividends are payable and Ex-Dividend Dates. Only Yahoo allowed me to quickly group together the businesses of interest and display this information.

Their Email was quick and easy. Simple navigation with a clear display. The Email search feature was fast and accurate. When it comes to E-mail, I elect to have multiple accounts. One being for Banking and Investing. Another for Business dealings including buying and selling online through Ebay and Amazon. Lastly, one for personal use. Little silly websites and businesses that ask for an Email when I check-out get my third or personal email. Yahoo had always been my personal Email server. I felt it was pretty secure and offered decent filters.

But that time has come where MSN surpassed Yahoo in many respects. Several weeks ago, I was forced to change my password on Yahoo. They forced me to enter numbers or symbols thereby creating a password that I wouldn't remember. I couldn't use a past password either.

After several failed attempts at retrieving my Password, on my Mobile, "Phablet (Phone/Tablet)," I decided to email Yahoo. Frustrated beyond belief, I noticed all the emails they sent with an Account Key were from a, "No Reply," email address (Epic failure to communicate with someone). I then tried reaching out on the Website itself. Crazy, I couldn't find any link or method of contacting anyone for help! The Website kept looping back to a log-in screen and never offered me a chance to reset the password. It seemed broken!

After roughly twenty years of using Yahoo, I am now going through the steps of abandoning the Portal. Luckily, I did setup my Phone to retrieve email every 30 minutes. That is still working! However, I am changing all my accounts to an MSN Email address. Once complete, I will delete Yahoo off my phone and never intend on using their Portal again. I have started using Microsoft's MSN.Com as my Portal too. A Portal is only used during those scarce times, like Big-Foot sightings, when I use my Desktop Computer. But I found MSN to be so much more enjoyable to gather useful information, I may once again devote butt-time to the desk chair rather than the Kitchen Table or Sofa!

MSN.com is quite a surprise of a Portal. Although I hardly scrape past Social Media Sites (Twitter Insta and Google+), MSN has convenient links for Shopping and Social Media on top of the page. Scrolling down offers organized collections of articles and images from around the Internet. Sections are organized by topics (Finance, Health, Business, etc...).

Like Yahoo, MSN offers Email through their Portal. So it looks like a good fit to replace Yahoo. The change was very simple. I use the Google Chrome Browser, and these were the steps:

1. On the top right corner I clicked the Menu button (Three vertical dots).

2. On the Drop-Down Menu, Clicked, "Settings".

3. The second set of options (On Startup) I had the radio button selected to open a set of pages. To the far right of that radio button, I clicked the link, "Set Pages".

4. I deleted Yahoo.com by clicking the, "X," to the right.

5. In that add new page line, I typed, "MSN.com".

6. Reverting back to the settings menu, I focused one line below the, "On Startup," to, "Appearance". On that proceeding line is an option to, "Show Home Button". That places a small Home Button on the left side of the Browser URL bar, when browsing the internet. There I changed the Home Button option from Yahoo.com to MSN.Com.

All done and much more enjoyable of a portal. It will take some time to become more acclimated with MSN, but I guess the one person that don't need anymore money will be making more off me! That Bill Gates, in case anyone is wondering, who is the richest person in the world...

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