why does msn .net take so much time?

yeah so whats with this new messenger .net thing? it takes hell of time here man , downloading information from the net, what type of info? took me like 15 mins. on winxp to log in for the first time. anyone else having problems?
has anyone tried Myth 3 on winxp?

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