Microsoft's MSN 8, which debuted last week, is one of the...core areas of e-mail and Web browsing. MSN 8's mail basically repackages Microsoft's...you log in at home, on another PC running MSN 8 (Win 98 or newer) or the Hotmail Web page...

...junk-mail blockers, parental controls and other features. Of course, the devil is in the details so I put AOL 8.0 and MSN 8 to a head-to-head test, keeping in mind that there's always a third option: neither. The biggest difference is...