At the risk of mentioning "that" company, Bing is not a horrible home page. While I still have iGoogle as my home page on most machines, I have two of them with Win 8 where I've found IE to work better, and the Bing home page is not bad. Combine that with the native gadgets in the Windows desktop, and you're almost there.

Even so, I will miss iGoogle. I presume someone out there has an "iGiggle" domain for a new portal startup waiting in the wings?